I try to understand the psychological foundations of religious beliefs and practices. What is similar amongst religious ideas and behaviors? How can we explain these similarities by understanding how humans tend to think and behave? And how does culture shape and modify these predispositions?

Experience

  • –present
    Cognitive Science of Religion/Psychology and Religion , California State University, Northridge

Education

  • 2009 
    Institute of Cognition and Culture, Belfast , Psychology

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