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    "pk": 25790,
    "title": "Why Stickiness is not Enough to Explain Persistence of Counterintuitive Religious\nConcepts",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Cognitive scientists of religion argue that religious ideas are\nwidespread because they are minimally counterintuitive.\nTraditional lab studies have found support for a better\nmemory for minimally counterintuitive concepts. This paper\npresents an in-depth case study of the spread of a\ncounterintuitive religious idea in the real world. It finds that\ncounterintuitiveness alone is not sufficient to guarantee\npersistence of a religious belief. Novel religious beliefs have\nto be painstakingly woven into the cultural fabric of a group’s\nshared social identity to ensure its survival.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "memory for counterintuitive concepts"
        },
        {
            "word": "cognitive\nanthropology of new religious movements"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21v136d0",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "M",
            "middle_name": "Afzal",
            "last_name": "Upal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Defence Research & Development Canada",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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