Explaining Vampirism: Two Divergent Attractors of Dead Human Concepts
This paper explores the cognitive foundations of vampirism beliefs. The occurrence of beliefs of the dead rising from graves and returning to harm the living across many cultures indicates that this concept has features that make it successful in the process of cultural transmission. Comparing ghost...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 285-298 |
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dead humans
disgust
minimally counter-intuitive concepts
vampirism
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Volltext (Verlag) |