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From mutualism to moral transcendenceScott Atran
UMR 8129, CNRS Institut Jean Nicod Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France
Behav Brain Sci 36:81-2. 2013..Primary social identity is bounded by sacred values, which drive individuals to promote their group through non-rational commitment to actions independently of likely risks and rewards...- Religious and sacred imperatives in human conflictScott Atran
CNRS Institut Jean Nicod, 29 rue d Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
Science 336:855-7. 2012..Sacred values sustain intractable conflicts that defy "business-like" negotiation, but also provide surprising opportunities for resolution... - Parasite stress is not so critical to the history of religions or major modern group formationsScott Atran
UMR 8129, CNRS Institut Jean Nicod Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75005 Paris, France
Behav Brain Sci 35:79-80. 2012..Applied to modern social formations, however, the arguments and inferences from data are problematic... 
Social science. Sacred barriers to conflict resolutionScott Atran
CNRS--Institut Jean Nicod, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
Science 317:1039-40. 2007- The cultural mind: environmental decision making and cultural modeling within and across populationsScott Atran
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
Psychol Rev 112:744-76. 2005..This framework addresses several methodological issues, such as limitations on conceiving culture to be a well-defined system, bounded entity, independent variable, or an internalized component of minds... - Religion's evolutionary landscape: counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communionScott Atran
CNRS Institut Jean Nicod, 75007 Paris, France
Behav Brain Sci 27:713-30; discussion 730-70. 2004..Because religious beliefs cannot be deductively or inductively validated, validation occurs only by ritually addressing the very emotions motivating religion. Cross-cultural experimental evidence encourages these claims... - Genesis of suicide terrorismScott Atran
CNRS Institut Jean Nicod, 1 bis Avenue Lowendal, 75007 Paris, France, and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 1248, USA
Science 299:1534-9. 2003..A first line of defense is to get the communities from which suicide attackers stem to stop the attacks by learning how to minimize the receptivity of mostly ordinary people to recruiting organizations... 
Folkecology and commons management in the Maya LowlandsS Atran
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:7598-603. 1999....- Folk biology and the anthropology of science: cognitive universals and cultural particularsS Atran
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CREA Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Behav Brain Sci 21:547-69; discussion 569-609. 1998..Moreover, theory-driven scientific knowledge cannot simply replace folk knowledge in everyday life. Folk-biological knowledge is not driven by implicit or inchoate theories of the sort science aims to make more accurate and perfect... - Small groups find fatal purpose through the webScott Atran
Nature 437:620. 2005 - A bird's eye view: biological categorization and reasoning within and across culturesJeremy N Bailenson
Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 9660, USA
Cognition 84:1-53. 2002..These findings also show that relative expertise leads to a convergence of thought that transcends cultural boundaries and shared experiences... - The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across culturesDouglas L Medin
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60209 2710, USA
Psychol Rev 111:960-83. 2004..Certain phenomena are robust across populations, consistent with notions of a core module... - Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflictJeremy Ginges
Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10003, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:7357-60. 2007..We show that the use of material incentives to promote the peaceful resolution of political and cultural conflicts may backfire when adversaries treat contested issues as sacred values... - Cultural mosaics and mental models of natureMegan Bang
TERC, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13868-74. 2007....