Special Section: Religion as a Large-Scale Justification System: Does the Justification Hypothesis Explain Animistic Attribution?

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 779-799

  Shaffer, Leigh S ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

animism; attribution; folk psychology; Justification Hypothesis; Theory of Mind; Tree of Knowledge System

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649197939     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354308097257     Document Type: Article

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