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The Recipe for Religion — Cooking Up Spiritual Experiences

May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Cognition, Cultural Evolution, Emotions, Evolutionary Byproduct, Methodology

In the fourth installment in his series on memory and the work of Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Slate’s William Saletan discusses “repressed memories” that have given rise to all sorts of injustice in courtrooms across America.  The title of today’s article is “The Recipe: A Cookbook for Memories of Sexual Abuse,” and includes this revelatory excerpt:
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