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Pascal Boyer

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66

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6K

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Active since

1986

Affiliations

Washington University in St. Louis(Current)

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Pascal Boyer is an author at Washington University in St. Louis specializing in social sciences, cognitive science, and social cognition.

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Publications per year

1986–2023

66

Publications

66

Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2006 · 596 citations

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The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion

Justin L. Barrett, Pascal Boyer · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1996 · 548 citations

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Cognitive templates for religious concepts: cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations

Pascal Boyer · Cognitive Science · 2001 · 366 citations · Full text

Cognitive templates for religious concepts: cross‐cultural evidence for recall of counter‐intuitive representations

Pascal Boyer, Charles Ramble · Cognitive Science · 2001 · 344 citations

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Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior

Pierre Liénard, Pascal Boyer · American Anthropologist · 2006 · 296 citations

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