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Reasoning about dead agents: A cross-cultural perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Harvey Whitehouse*
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School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PE, United Kingdom http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/
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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.

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