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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,
t innate rather than cultural biases, says Kelemen. But recent work suggests that it's not just children: Kelemen and Krista Casler of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, found the same tendency to ascribe pur- pose to phenomena like rocks, sand, and lakes in uneducated Romany adults. 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,
t innate rather than cultural biases, says Kelemen. But recent work suggests that it's not just children: Kelemen and Krista Casler of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, found the same tendency to ascribe pur- pose to phenomena like rocks, sand, and lakes in uneducated Romany adults. The
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,
t innate rather than cultural biases, says Kelemen. But recent work suggests that it's not just children: Kelemen and Krista Casler of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylva- nia, found the same tendency to ascribe pur- pose to phenomena like rocks, sand, and lakes in uneducated Romany adults. The
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