A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From
infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other …

Human adults recruit distinct networks of brain regions to think about the bodies and minds
of others. This study characterizes the development of these networks, and tests for …

The well-respected tradition of research on concepts uses cross-cultural comparisons to
explore which aspects of conceptual behavior are universal versus culturally variable. This …

How do concepts of mental life vary across cultures? By asking simple questions about
humans, animals and other entities–for example,'Do beetles get hungry? Remember things …

This article argues against the strong “holist” position that the early Chinese lacked any
concept of mind–body dualism, and more broadly against a “neo-Orientalist” trend that …

Researchers explain cultural phenomena ranging from cognitive biases to widespread
religious beliefs by assuming intuitive dualism: humans imagine minds and bodies as …

Although belief in ghosts or analogous concepts is prevalent cross-culturally, including in
contemporary Western cultures, social scientific treatments of spirit belief and experience …

People are intuitive Dualists—they tacitly consider the mind as ethereal, distinct from the
body. Here we ask whether Dualism emerges naturally from the conflicting core principles …

Humans may intuitively be dualists, imagining physical bodies and non-physical minds as
distinct and separable. Intuitive dualism has been invoked to explain diverse phenomena …

This article focuses on the debate about mind-body concepts in early China to demonstrate
the usefulness of large-scale, automated textual analysis techniques for scholars of religion …