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G_4_13 — HADD and Agency Detection — Why We See Beings Everywhere

The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) — a term coined by cognitive scientist Justin Barrett (2000) building on work by Stewart Guthrie (1993) and Pascal Boyer (2001) — refers to the proposed cognitive mechanism

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C_5_01 Global Traditions

C_5_01 — Cognitive Anthropology of Serpent Archetypes

This document examines the evolutionary and cognitive science explanations for why serpent beings appear in virtually every human culture. Snake Detection Theory (Isbell, 2009) proposes that primates evolved superior vis

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K_5_04 Consciousness

K_5_04 — Neuroscience of Belief

Belief — the mental state of holding something to be true — is a cornerstone of conscious experience, shaping perception, memory, emotion, decision-making, and behavior. The neuroscience of belief has revealed that belie

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ZC_1_05 Social Science

ZC_1_05 — Psychology of Religion & Spiritual Experience

The psychology of religion — the empirical study of religious and spiritual experience, belief, and behavior — was inaugurated by William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), which established that relig

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G_4_04 Modern Frameworks

G_4_04 — Cognitive Science of Religion and the Anthropology of Belief

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is an interdisciplinary field that explains religious belief and practice as natural products of evolved cognitive mechanisms rather than supernatural revelation or cultural invent

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T_4_12 Credible Psychology & Social

T_4_12 — Radicalization: Pathways to Extremism, Terrorism, and Deradicalization

Radicalization — the process by which individuals adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideologies that justify violence as a means of achieving group or personal goals — has become one of the most i

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T_5_04 Verified Psychology & Social

T_5_04 — Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

The psychology of religion investigates why humans believe in supernatural agents, how religious practices affect cognition and well-being, and what psychological functions religion serves. The field was inaugurated by W

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T_5_18 Verified Psychology & Social

T_5_18 — Cognitive Science of Religion: How Minds Create Gods

The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is an interdisciplinary field — emerging in the 1990s from cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and neuroscience — that explains religious beliefs and practice

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B_5_06 Beings & Entities

B_5_06 — Deification of Natural Phenomena: Thunder, Earthquakes, Disease as Entities

Across virtually every documented human culture, natural phenomena — storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, drought — have been personified as intentional agents: gods, demons, or spirits with desires, emoti

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