• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Reasoning about dead agents: A cross-cultural perspective
  • Contributor: Whitehouse, Harvey
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006
  • Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x0648910x
  • ISSN: 0140-525X; 1469-1825
  • Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience ; Physiology ; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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  • Description: <jats:p>Jesse Bering's theory of the “folk psychology of souls” is brilliantly elucidated and warrants further empirical investigation. While additional experimental research is certainly required, we also need to interrogate the evidence on reasoning about dead agents in a wide range of real-world settings.</jats:p>