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Name: The belief instinct
Author: Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering, a leading evolutionary psychologist, investigates the origins of humanity's belief in a higher power. He argues that this belief functioned as an adaptive illusion, serving a survival advantage in our evolutionary past. Today, it remains a vestigial cognitive trait, persisting even though its original evolutionary purpose has become obsolete.

First publish date: 2011

Genre: Psychology/General Psychology

Authors: Jesse Bering

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