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d to the designs and desires of other people that we are hypersensitive to signs of "agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition;' we tend to attribute random events or nat
that children tend toward creationist explanations of natural phenomena. there?' ... Given ambiguous stimuli, we often posit an agency at play." Guthrie suggested that natural selection primed this system for false positives, because if the bump in the night is really a burglar—or a lion—you could
to the designs and desires of other people that we are hypersensitive to signs of - agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition,- we tend to attribute random events or na
that children tend toward creationist explanations of natural phenomena. there?' ... Given ambiguous stimuli, we often posit an agency at play." Guthrie suggested that natural selection primed this system for false positives, because if the bump in the night is really a burglar—or a lion—you could
d to the designs and desires of other people that we arc hypersensitive to signs of "agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition:" we tend to attribute random events or nat
that children tend toward creationist explanations of natural phenomena. there?' ... Given ambiguous stimuli, we often posit an agency at play:' Guthrie suggested that natural selection primed this system for false positives, because if the bump in the night is really a burglar—or a lion—you could
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