Jesse Bering
Biographic Data
| ID | 2146924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Bering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse |
| FAMILY NAME | Bering |
| SIGNATURE | BERING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago New Zealand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Know You’ve Survived Death
Reports of people who have survived death have captured the attention of mainstream audiences. Why do these ideas enjoy persistent and widespread success in contemporary Western culture? Adopting a cognitive approach to the study of afterlife accounts and drawing upon our own research, we argue that mainstream survival narratives are popular because they provide convincing evidence that one has journeyed to another realm. Such accounts are convin…
Perv
A groundbreaking argument that perversions are more common than we think, from everyone's favorite provocateur In his eye-opening new book, Perv, the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. As Bering takes us into the lives of a woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower, a young man addicted to seductive sneezes, and a pair of deeply affectionate identical twi…
Devassos Por Natureza
Atheism is only skin deep
Cognitive scientists of religion and evolutionary theorists alike have been increasingly arguing in recent\nyears that religion is "natural" in the sense of being motivated by core, evolved psychological intuitions.\nAtheism, and irreligion more generally, appear to pose problems for the naturalness hypothesis, especially\nconsidering the significant proportion of people in contemporary societies who reject supernatural\nbeliefs. Although Geertz …
Hand of God, Mind of Man
The evolution of human cooperation remains a puzzle because cooperation persists even in conditions that rule out mainstream explanations. We present a novel solution that links two recent theories. First, Johnson & Kruger (2004) suggested that ancestral cooperation was promoted because norm violations were deterred by the threat of supernatural punishment. However, this only works if individuals attribute negative life events (or a prospective a…
Atheism is only skin deep
Cognitive scientists of religion and evolutionary theorists alike have been increasingly arguing in recent\nyears that religion is "natural" in the sense of being motivated by core, evolved psychological intuitions.\nAtheism, and irreligion more generally, appear to pose problems for the naturalness hypothesis, especially\nconsidering the significant proportion of people in contemporary societies who reject supernatural\nbeliefs. Although Geertz …
Hand of God, Mind of Man
The evolution of human cooperation remains a puzzle because cooperation persists even in conditions that rule out mainstream explanations. We present a novel solution that links two recent theories. First, Johnson & Kruger (2004) suggested that ancestral cooperation was promoted because norm violations were deterred by the threat of supernatural punishment. However, this only works if individuals attribute negative life events (or a prospective a…
Atheism is only skin deep
Cognitive scientists of religion and evolutionary theorists alike have been increasingly arguing in recent\nyears that religion is "natural" in the sense of being motivated by core, evolved psychological intuitions.\nAtheism, and irreligion more generally, appear to pose problems for the naturalness hypothesis, especially\nconsidering the significant proportion of people in contemporary societies who reject supernatural\nbeliefs. Although Geertz …
Perv
A groundbreaking argument that perversions are more common than we think, from everyone's favorite provocateur In his eye-opening new book, Perv, the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. As Bering takes us into the lives of a woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower, a young man addicted to seductive sneezes, and a pair of deeply affectionate identical twi…
Devassos Por Natureza
How to Know You’ve Survived Death
Reports of people who have survived death have captured the attention of mainstream audiences. Why do these ideas enjoy persistent and widespread success in contemporary Western culture? Adopting a cognitive approach to the study of afterlife accounts and drawing upon our own research, we argue that mainstream survival narratives are popular because they provide convincing evidence that one has journeyed to another realm. Such accounts are convin…
Cognition (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Mainstream (2 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Afterlife (1 work) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work)