Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

The relationship between religion and morality has long been hotly debated. Does religion
make us more moral? Is it necessary for morality? Do moral inclinations emerge …

We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions and apply it to
resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history:(1) the rise of large-scale …

Terror management theory posits that human awareness of the inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse aspects of human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably
linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing …

This ground-breaking book makes the case for adopting a realist philosophical perspective
for qualitative research. Joseph Maxwell argues for critically applying a realist ontology to a …

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has
puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing …