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    Why Do People Believe in Ghost Stories?

    One question for Iris Berent, an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University. The post Why Do People Believe in Ghost Stories? appeared first on Nautilus.
    by Brian Gallagher Dec 06, 2022 3 minutes

    One question for Iris Berent, an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University, where she investigates, among other things, language and how people reason about human nature.

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    Why do people believe in ghost stories?

    he explanation that occurs to most people is that this is something that comes from culture, religion. In my new on autistic people, I look at a different possibility, that this belief arises from our tendency to view our mind as separate from the body.

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