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Harvard psychology professor Marc D. Hauser, who co-authored the study, argues that from an evolutionary perspective, cognitive mechanisms involved in moral decision-making precede organized religion...
...Morality is far more ancient than religion,” Hauser said. “Most, if not all, of the psychological ingredients that enter into religion originally evolved to solve more general problems of social interaction...
...Hauser claimed the findings help explain recent studies indicating that people’s moral intuitions vary little across different religions...
...illustrate the universality of certain moral intuitions, Hauser presented two hypothetical options for saving a group of seven people in a closed room—pressing a button to divert poisonous gas from the room or pushing a person into a ventilation shaft to stop the gas from reaching the room...
Over the course of their five year history, Taylor-Mead and the Coolidge Corner Theatre have screened such films as “A Clockwork Orange” with a visit from Marc Hauser, a professor in Harvard’s psychology pepartment; “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with pscychology professor Daniel Schacter; and “2001: A Space Odyssey” with cognitive scientist Marvin L. Minsky ’50. “Audiences should expect to see a classic or cult feature film or outstanding and hard-to-find documentary...