Robert N. McCauley

William Rand Kenan Jr University Professor and Director Robert N McCauley

E. Thomas Lawson

Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals the world over exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance their recollection (literacy does not affect this). McCauley and Lawson argue that participants' cognitive representations of ritual form explain why. Reviewing a wide range of evidence, they explain religions' evolution.

Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

Bringing Ritual to Mind

A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.

Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not

C. E. V. Borio

The Economics of Recent Bond Yield Volatility

Hyun Song Shin

Stijn Claessens

Claudio Borio

Piet Clement

A multi-faceted look at what global central bank cooperation has - and has not - achieved over the past half century.

The Bank for International Settlements after Bretton Woods, 1973–2020

Promoting Global Monetary and Financial Stability

Robert N. McCauley

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