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Folk psychology meets folk Darwinism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Jay Hegdé  and
Norman A. Johnson
Jay Hegdé*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455http://www.hegde.us
Norman A. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA01003http://www.umass.edu/psis/personnel/johnson.html
*
hegde@umn.edu
njohnson@ent.umass.edu
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Abstract:

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The fact that beliefs in the supernatural are useful to people who hold them does not necessarily mean that these beliefs confer an evolutionary advantage to those who hold them. An evolutionary explanation for any biological phenomenon must meet rigorous criteria, but the facts in this case, even when taken at their face value, fall well short of these criteria.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 476 - 477
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006