“Atheism is more a verbal muzzling of God—a conscious, executively made decision to reject one’s own intuitions about a faceless übermind involved in our personal affairs—than it is a true cognitive exorcism.”
— Jesse Bering, The Belief Instinct
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"The Study"
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A psychologist, writer, social commentator, and scientist provocateur, Dr. Jesse Bering is the voice behind the award-winning Scientific American blog "Bering in Mind," where his incisive thoughts on everything from the design of the human penis to psychopaths to the meaning of life have been captivating (and startling) readers since 2009.
He is also the author of the long-awaited book The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life (W. W. Norton), which is scheduled to be released in the US on February 7, 2011 and — as The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life — on November 4, 2010 in the UK (Nicholas Brealey Publishing).
