What explains the ubiquity and diversity of religions around the world? Widespread cognitive tendencies, including mentalizing and intuitive thinking, offer part of the explanation for recurrent features of religion, and individual differences in religious commitments. However, vast diversity in religious beliefs points to the importance of the cultural context in which religious beliefs are transmitted. Cultural evolutionary theory provides the basis of a unified explanation for how cognition and culture interact to shape religious beliefs, in ways that are uniquely adapted to local ecological pressures. These insights lay the groundwork for future research regarding how cultural learning interacts with other evolved aspects of human psychology to generate the recurrent and the diverse forms of religious commitments observed around the world.

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文化学习和认知偏见如何塑造宗教信仰

是什么解释了世界各地宗教的普遍性和多样性？广泛的认知倾向，包括心智化和直觉思维，为宗教反复出现的特征和宗教信仰的个体差异提供了部分解释。然而，宗教信仰的巨大多样性表明了宗教信仰传播的文化背景的重要性。文化进化理论为认知和文化如何相互作用以独特地适应当地生态压力的方式塑造宗教信仰提供了统一解释的基础。这些见解为未来关于文化学习如何与人类心理学的其他进化方面相互作用以产生世界各地观察到的反复出现和多样化形式的宗教承诺的研究奠定了基础。