Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion
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Religion's evolutionary landscape: counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion.
Religion is not an evolutionary adaptation per se, but a recurring cultural by-product of the complex evolutionary landscape that sets cognitive, emotional, and material conditions for ordinary human interactions. Religion exploits only ordinary cognitive processes to passionately display costly devotion to counterintuitive worlds governed by supernatural agents. The conceptual foundations of r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0140-525X,1469-1825
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x04000172