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Pascal Boyer

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Publications

67

Citations

6.1K

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36

Active since

1986

Affiliations

Washington University in St. Louis(Current)

Inserm

Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Sorbonne Université

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Pascal Boyer is an author at Washington University in St. Louis specializing in psychology, social sciences, and psychology of religion.

Publications per year

1986–2023

67

Publications

67

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

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2006 · 600 citations

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Psychology +17

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

Arts, Psychology, Religion +15

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

Pascal Boyer · Cognitive Science · 2001 · 367 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Religion +14

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

Pascal Boyer, Charles Ramble · Cognitive Science · 2001 · 345 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Religion +14

What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural: Intuitive Ontology and Cultural Representations

Pascal Boyer · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 1996 · 299 citations

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Psychology +9

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