Social psychologists have studied beliefs and values, and related constructs such as "attitudes" and "prejudice" for decades. But as this innovative and interdi

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Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

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This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight into the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a death.