Pascal Robert Boyer is a Franco-American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of...

anthropologist Pascal Boyer, in which the author discusses the evolutionary psychology of religion and evolutionary origin of religions. Boyer describes the...

just technical). There are however dissenting views; scholars such as Pascal Boyer argue that defining tradition and developing theories about it are important...

evolutionary psychology and anthropology, including Scott Atran, Dan Sperber, Pascal Boyer, John Tooby and others, argue the possibility of incompatibility between...

Boyer (French pronunciation: [bwaje]) is a French surname. In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of other names. Boyer is found...

ISBN 0-19-506901-3. Boyer, Pascal. "Functional Origins of Religious concepts". Archived from the original on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2009-12-19. Boyer, Pascal (2001)...

Thomas Lawson and Robert McCauley, Naturalness of Religious Ideas by Pascal Boyer, Inside the Cult and Arguments and Icons by Harvey Whitehouse, and Guthrie's...

supernormal stimuli and they may generate peak shifts in responding. Pascal Boyer has suggested that music is a superstimulus targeting human affinity...

ISBN 978-3-319-16999-6. Retrieved 28 March 2024. Religion Explained, by Pascal Boyer Henig, Robin Marantz (Mar 4, 2007). "Darwin's God (page 3)". The Times...

Cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer argued that minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCI) i.e., concepts that violate a few ontological expectations...

lives of humans has been imagined and embellished over generations. Pascal Boyer argues that while there is a wide array of supernatural concepts found...

Barrett Jay Belsky Jesse Bering David F. Bjorklund Paul Bloom John Bowlby Pascal Boyer Joseph Bulbulia David Buss Josep Call Anne Campbell Donald T. Campbell...

outcomes. Influential cognitive and anthropological scientists, such as Pascal Boyer and Nicholas Humphrey, have endorsed Singh's approach, although other...

University Press, 1992 Boyer, Pascal. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas. University of California Press, 1994 Boyer, Pascal. Religion Explained: The...

Anthropological and cognitive theories of religion, such as those advanced by Pascal Boyer and others, explore theophanies as culturally patterned manifestations...

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at through the lens of the function and processing of the human mind. Pascal Boyer suggests that, for the longest period of time, the brain was thought...

One of those was the Gazette universelle that he founded together with Pascal Boyer and Antoine Marie Cerisier. It was very successful until it was suppressed...

Miller, Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, Colin McGinn, Denys Turner, Pascal Boyer and Daniel Dennett. The series also includes many quotations from the...

203 Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, Pascal Boyer, Basic Books (2001). H. L. Mencken, "Where is the Graveyard of Dead Gods...

feeling of insecurity and then proposing themselves as precautions. Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard propose that the shape rituals take results from goal...

Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) is a compiler for the closely related programming-language dialects Pascal and Object Pascal. It is free software released under...

Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions, an article together with Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil and Pascal Boyer...

Adam Pascal (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, singer, and musician, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original Broadway and West...

Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1991. Scott Atran Maurice Bloch Pascal Boyer Khan, Razib (17 December 2005). "10 questions for Dan Sperber". Gene...

Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, 1972, Rev. ed., 1979, ISBN 0-19-875024-2 Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, New...

centuries, and there is no evidence of increased anxiety. Psychologist Pascal Boyer says a cognitive approach can account for the transmission of religious...

In his book Religion Explained, Boyer shows that there is no simple explanation for religious consciousness. Boyer is mainly concerned with explaining...

newspaper which he founded together with Joseph François Michaud and Pascal Boyer in 1789. This journal was financially very successful, but it was suppressed...

Maurice Bloch (cognitive anthropology) Maggie Boden (cognitive science) Pascal Boyer (cognitive anthropology) Per Aage Brandt (cognitive semiotics) Brian...