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Robert M Ross
1 paper in the library · publishing 2018
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
January 2018
Robert M Ross, Ryan Mckay
Singh's cultural evolutionary theory of shamanism is impressive, but it does not explain why some people become shamans while others do not. We propose that individual differences in where people lie on a "psychosis continuum" could play an important causal role.
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