CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Enculturation, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Dead Bodies
23 Oct 2016
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Personal permanence our belief that people still exist when we can no longer perceive them. It seems that this does not shut off immediately when someone dies, leading to beliefs that their minds still exist. Studies show that most people, even self-described atheists, attribute mental states to the dead. If something is learned, we predict that it gets stronger during enculturation. The opposite happens with attributing mental states to the dead. Kindergarteners were more likely to do this than older children. This suggests that there is an innate component. Pascal boyer"s cou(cid:374)tero(cid:374)tology theory we have subsystems for understanding different things in the world: contagion, persons, living things, tools, physical objects, etc. Studies show that people find these one-violation concepts the most plausible. If (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e too (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) the(cid:374) (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e (cid:449)ill (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou a(cid:396)e sa(cid:455); if (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t have any then no one cares about what you are saying.
