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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
"it's a compelling idea, but I haven't seen lots of empirical evidence that you can get from there to religious beliefs," says social psychologist Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada. Indeed, even if more data are forthcom- ing, such models are a long way from explain
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
"it's a compelling idea, but I haven't seen lots of empirical evidence that you can get from there to religious beliefs," says social psychologist Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada. Indeed, even if more data are forthcom- ing, such models are a long way from explain
Blog, NEW YORK TIMES Adam Bly, Editor, SEED Magazine David Bodanis, Science Writer, London Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian psychologist, Mill Valley Pascal Boyer, Cognitive Scientist, Washington University, St. Louis EFTA00629472 Stewart Brand, Editor and Author, Sausalito, CA Larry Brilliant, Pandemic Res
dge Randolph Nesse, MD, Psychiatrist, U. of Michigan Richard Nisbett, Social Psychologist, U. of Michigan Alva Noe, Cognitive Scientist, Berkeley Ara Norenzayan, Social Psychologist, U. of British Columbia Michael Norton, Psychologist, Professor of Marketing, HBS Martin Nowak, Mathematical Biologist, Harvar
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