#1120 Pascal Boyer: Ritualized Behavior, Ownership Psychology, and Victim-Devaluation
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined for a second time by Dr. Pascal Boyer. He is the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory in the departments of psychology and anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
I'm leaving a link to our first interview in the description down below and today we're going to talk about religions in the wild, ritualized behavior, ownership psychology, victim devaluation, and other related topics. So Dr. Boyer, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you back.
Thank you for having me and it's a great pleasure to talk again. Thanks. Okay, so I would like to start by asking you a little bit about religion, which was the topic we ended on in our first interview. And just to go back to it a little bit, uh, now I have uh just a couple more questions about it, three or four questions. So
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