3
Shared Docs
3
Same-Page
3 / 3
Mentions
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
s 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 natural phe- Signs of the
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
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 natural phe- Signs of th
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
s 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 natural phe- t.:1' 4 • S
Entities connected to both Guthrie and Washington Univer-

Eric Schmidt
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Harvard University
ORGANIZATION
Prince Charles
PERSONCourtney Wild
PERSON
Vancouver
LOCATION
Martha Stewart
PERSON
United Kingdom
LOCATIONHodder
PERSON
St. Louis
LOCATION
Belfast
LOCATION
Jesse
PERSONBoyer
PERSONBarrett
PERSON
the National Academy of Sciences
ORGANIZATIONKrista Casler
PERSONJordan Grafman
PERSONGrafman
PERSONRenfrew
LOCATIONNeandertals
ORGANIZATION