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ng animations of circles, triangles, and squares darting about could identify various shapes as char- acters and infer a narrative. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie noted in 1993 that this ten- dency could help explain religion, because it implies we attribute "agency" to all kinds of inanimate objects and amb
al properties of our cognitive systems that lean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a god," says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans,
ng animations of circles, triangles, and squares darting about could identify various shapes as char- acters and infer a narrative. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie noted in 1993 that this ten- dency could help explain religion, because it implies we attribute "agency" to all kinds of inanimate objects and amb
onal properties of our cognitive systems that lean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a got says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans,
ng animations of circles, triangles, and squares darting about could identify various shapes as char- acters and infer a narrative. Anthropologist Stewart Guthrie noted in 1993 that this ten- dency could help explain religion, because it implies we attribute "agency" to all kinds of inanimate objects and amb
al properties of our cognitive systems that lean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a god," says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans,
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