religion

nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

cognitive scientist

innovator in the field of

cognitive science

American

scientist

psychologist

social anthropology

evolutionary psychology

anthropology

is beliefs caused by innate mental instincts that lead us toward certain kinds of social relations, morality, and predilections.

He advocates the idea that human instincts provide us with the basis for an intuitive theory of mind that guides our social relations, morality, and predilections toward religious beliefs. Boyer and others propose that these innate mental systems make human beings predisposed to certain cultural elements such as belief in supernatural beings.' (wiki)

Pascal Boyer

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