Majority and prestigious endorsement boosts spread of supernatural beliefs
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- Supernatural beliefs that mildly violate intuitions spread better than others (similarity 0.83)
- Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities (similarity 0.82)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.81)
- Majority and elite endorsement boosts a religious belief’s cultural spread. (similarity 0.80)
- Colin McGinn argues consciousness is a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel, as the hard problem of qualia cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.79)
- Prosocial religious cohesion inherently requires excluding nonbelievers from trust (similarity 0.79)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.78)
- Priming thoughts of God makes believers favor their own religious group (similarity 0.78)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.78)
- The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. (similarity 0.78)