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le 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 spirit? Small, 30
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
e 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 spirit? Small, 3
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
le 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 • Signs of the spirit
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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