LINK: Study on Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism
Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Patrick McNamara have published a very intriguing study in the cognitive science of religion entitled, “Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism.” Here is the abstract: The cognitive science of religion is a new field which explains religious belief as emerging from normal cognitive processes such as inferring others’ mental … LINK: Study on Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism
Justin Barrett’s “Hyperactive Agency Detection Device” (HADD)
Another item for the “not new, but new for me” category. Justin Barrett is a cognitive scientist of religion and the author of Why Would Anyone Believe in God? In that book, Barrett advances an intriguing explanatory hypothesis for why most people believe in God: the Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) hypothesis. I have to … Justin Barrett’s “Hyperactive Agency Detection Device” (HADD)