Going to into the article, I was not entirely sure which causality direction they were going to go for. "Fundies beat up their kids causing brain damage" wouldn't have surprised me.
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Religious beliefs can be thought of as socially transmitted mental representations that consist of supernatural events and entities assumed to be real.
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Not the first formulation I'd have expected. Not wrong, but I wonder how many committee edits that went through.
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cognitive flexibility and open mindedness present a challenge for fundamentalists.
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The most not a surprise claim in the article.