Journal article
The science of religious beliefs
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Why have humans, throughout history and across cultures, shown a strong tendency to believe in the existence of superhuman intentional agents and attached this belief to notions of morality, misfortune, and the creation of the world? The answer emerging from the cognitive science of religion appears to be that explicit beliefs are informed and constrained by the natural and cross-culturally recurrent operation of implicit cognitive systems. Successful god concepts resonate with the expectatio...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.religion.2008.01.007
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Religion Journal website
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 109-124
- Publication date:
- 2008-06-05
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0048-721X
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- ora:3117
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- English
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- 2008
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