Pascal Boyer suggests, in his book Religion Explained, that there is no simple explanation for religious consciousness.
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He builds on the ideas of cognitive anthropologists Dan Sperber and Scott Atran, who argued that religious cognition represents a by-product of various evolutionary adaptations, including folk psychology.
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Proponent Dean Hamer see this predisposition as increasing optimism, which has positive effects on other factors such as health and reproductive success.
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