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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,
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
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,
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
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,
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
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