Heated debate on cognition and religion in the Guardian
If you like it hot, there has just been a heated exchange at the Guardian webpage, started by Andrew Brown reporting in his blog on a talk by Justin Barrett (whom we are proud to have as a member of
A new book by Daniel Everett on the Pirahã
A new book on the Pirahã by Daniel L. Everett:
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle.
(Pantheon Books in the US and Profile books in the UK, November 2008)
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Phil. Trans. B issue on cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour
The November 12, 2008 issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Volume 363, number 1509) is a theme issue devoted to ‘Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behavi
Book: Us and Them, by David Berreby
A book by David Berreby:
Us and Them: The Science of Identity - Second edition with a new preface
(University of Chicago Press 2005, 2008)
As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once
Book: Iron in the Soul: Dispacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus
A book by Peter Loïzos (Anthropology, LSE):
Iron in the Soul: Dispacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus
(Berhahn, 2008)
In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with
Book: The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
A book by Scott Atran and Douglas Medin:
The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
(Bradford Books, MIT Press, 2008)
Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the enviro
The AHRC Culture & the Mind Project
We view the International Cognition and Culture Institute as complementary to other initiatives that pursue the same general goal, often in a more focused manner and within a limited time frame. We
The origin and evolution of religious prosociality
Norenzayan, A., & Shariff, A. F. (2008). The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science, 322, 58:62.
We examine empirical evidence for religious prosociality, the hypothesis that
Religion: Bound to Believe?
Boyer, Pascal (2008) Religion: Bound to Believe? Nature vol 455: 1038-39.
Is religion a product of our evolution? In the past ten years, the evolutionary and cognitive study of religion has begun to
Site launch!
Welcome to our web site!
It feels good to be able to open it at last after countless twists of fate - like the time our web domain got kidnapped by a Lacanian psychoanalyst/driving-school professor