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Pascal Boyer

AcademicFrenchb. 1953

Cognitive Scientist

Boyer's cognitive science framework, developed alongside Justin Barrett, proposes that beings which are human in most respects but wrong in one salient dimension are maximally memorable and transmissible, offering a parsimonious account for why giant traditions arise independently across cultures.

cognitive scientist whose framework of minimally counterintuitive concepts is applied to explain cross-cultural giant traditions

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Born

1953 · Paris, France

Nationality

French

Current Role

Cognitive Scientist

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