[Paleopsych] Religion, Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology

[David Smith]

A selection of the papers presented at the New England Institute's 2003
conference on Religion, Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology have
now been published in a special issue of Evolution and Cognition 10(1)
edited by Robert E. Haskell and myself.

CONTENTS
  1.. Robert A. Hinde 'Religious systems: evolution, cultural change and the
development of religiosity'
  2.. Hank Davis & Andrea Javor 'Religion, death and horror movies: some
striking evolutionary parallels'
  3.. Joseph Bubulia 'Religious costs as adaptations that signal altruistic
intention'
  4.. Allen D. McNeill 'The capacity for religious experience is an
evolutionary adaptation to warfare'
  5.. Jesper Sorensen 'Religion, evolution and an immunology of cultural
systems'
  6.. Bradley Franks 'Negation and doubt in religious representations:
context-dependence, emotion and action'
  7.. Robert E. Haskell 'Subliteral (SubL) schemata of deity in verbal
narratives'
  8.. Steven W. Kercel & Donald C. Mikulecky 'Why do people behave
religiously?'
  9.. Ryan McKay 'Hallucinating God? The cognitive neuropsychiatry of
religious belief and experience.
  10.. Jesse M. Bering 'Natural selection is nondenominational: why
evolutionary models of religion should be more concerned with behavior than
concepts'
  11.. Craig T. Palmer & Lyle B. Steadman 'With or without belief: a new
approach to the definition and explanation of religion'

For information on obtaining the journal, contact the Konrad Lorenz
Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research sec at kla.univie.ac.at