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Lions, tigers, and bears, oh God!: How the ancient problem of predator detection may lie beneath the modern link between religion and horror

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Timothy Ketelaar
Timothy Ketelaar*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, MSC 3452, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8000 http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/
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ketelaar@nmsu.edu
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Abstract:

Atran & Norenzyan (A&N) claim that an appreciation of the evolved inferential machinery underlying supernatural beliefs can greatly aid us in understanding regularities in culturally shared conceptions of religion. I explore how their model provides insight into why culturally shared tales of horror (e.g., horror movies) often combine religious and predatory content.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 740 - 741
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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