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Prosocial aspects of afterlife beliefs: Maybe another by-product
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2006
Abstract:
Bering argues that belief in posthumous intentional agency may confer added fitness via the inhibition of opportunistic behavior. This is true only if these agents are interested parties in our moral choices, a feature which does not result from Bering's imaginative constraint hypothesis and extends to supernatural agents other than dead people's souls. A by-product model might handle this better.
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