A few seconds of survival processing, during which people assess the relevance of
information to a survival situation, produces particularly good retention. One interpretation of …

Heat shock proteins (Hsps) represent the most evolutionarily ancient, conserved, and
universal system for protecting cells and the whole body from various types of stress. Among …

In this paper, we critically review MCI theory and the evidence supporting it. MCI theory
typically posits that religious concepts violate what we call deep inferences, intuitions …

People recall and recognize animate words better than inanimate words, perhaps because
memory systems were shaped by evolution to prioritize memory for predators, people, and …

As appeals to what gods know and care about often motivate and rationalize human
behavior, understanding shared models of gods' minds is crucial for understanding religion's …

Recently, researchers have begun to investigate the function of memory in our evolutionary
history. According to Nairne and colleagues (eg,;), the best mnemonic strategy for learning …

Abstract The Hard Question of memory is the following: how are memory representations
stored and organized so as to be made available for retrieval in the appropriate …

The current study examined animacy and paired-associate learning through a survival-
processing paradigm (Nairne et al. in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning …

Throughout evolutionary history, humans have been exposed to a wide variety of diseases,
some of which have serious and even lethal consequences. Memorizing medicinal plants for …

In this paper, we present the points of convergence between of adaptive memory and
cultural attraction, and how these two approaches can help evolutionary ethnobiologists …