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26
Walter Isaacson, “Einstein & Faith,”
Time
, April 16, 2007, p. 34.
CHAPTER 4
2
Thomas Gilovich, R. Vallone, and Amos Tversky, “The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences,” C
ognitive Psychology
17 (1985): 295-314.
3
Thomas Gilovich,
How We Know What Isn’t So
(New York: Free Press, 1993).
4
J. E. Alcock, “Science of the Anomalous or Search for the Soul?”
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
10, no. 4 (1987): 553-65; K. R. Rao and J. Palmer, “The Anomaly of Psi: Recent Research and Criticism,”
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
10, no. 4 (1987): 539-51; Open peer commentary and response,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
10, no. 4 (1987): 566-644.
5
Shere Hite,
The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
(New York: Dell, 1976).
CHAPTER 5
1
Frans B. M. de Waal, “Primates: A Natural Heritage of Conflict Resolution,”
Science
289 (2000): 586-90; Matt Ridley,
The Origins of Virtue
(New York: Viking Press, 1996); Marc D. Hauser,
Moral Minds
(New York: HarperCollins, 2006).
2
Dan Barker,
Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children
(Madison, WI: FFRF, 2002).
3
Cited in Michael Shermer, “The Political Brain,”
Scientific American
, June 26, 2006.
5
Pascal Boyer,
Religion Explained
(New York: Basic Books, 2001).
6
Steven Jay Gould,
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
7
Hank Davis,
The Original Sun Singles, Vol. 1
, liner notes, Bear Family Records, 1994.
8
Peter Guralnick,
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
(New York: Little, Brown, 2005).
9
Alice Park, “Battle-Hardened Bacteria,”
Time
, June 18, 2007, p. 36.
10
Hank Davis, John Memmott, and Harry M. B. Hurwitz, “Autocontingencies: A Model for Subtle Behavioral Control,”
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
104 (1975): 169-88.
11
S. Sevigny and R. Ladouceur, “Gamblers’ Irrational Thinking about Chance Events: The ‘Double Switching’ Concept,”
International Gambling Studies
3, no. 2 (2003): 163-70.
12
Daniel Schacter,
The Seven Sins of Memory
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
13
James S. Nairne and Josefa N. S. Pandeirada, “Adaptive Memory: Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain,”
Current Directions in Psychological Science
17, no. 4 (2008): 239-43.
14
Michael Ritchie,
Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television
(Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994).
CHAPTER 6
1
Richard Dawkins,
A Devil’s Chaplain
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
2
Christopher Hitchens,
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
(London: Verso, 1996).
3
Louis Sahagun, “A Founding Father’s View of God,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 5, 2008.
5
Julian Barnes,
Arthur & George
(New York: Vintage, 2007).
6
Andrew Sullivan,
The Conservative Soul
(New York: Harper-Collins, 2006).
7
Stewart Guthrie,
Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
8
Chuck Berry, “The Downbound Train,” Chess 1615, 1955.
9
Pascal Boyer,
Religion Explained
(New York: Basic Books, 2001).
10
Matthew Alper,
The God Part of the Brain
(New York: Rogue Press, 2004).
11
Dean Hamer,
The God Gene
(New York: Random House, 2004).
12
Jacqueline Salmon, “Most Americans Believe in Higher Power, Poll Finds,”
Washington Post
(June 24, 2008).
13
Kat Bergeron, “Church Changes ‘God’ Sign,”
Mississippi Sun Herald
, September 15, 2002.
14
Stephen Prothero,
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003).
15
David Hume,
A Treatise of Human Nature
(New York: Dover Books, 2003 [1740]).
16
John D. Loudermilk, “He’s Just a Scientist, That’s All,” RCA LP 2539.
17
Tom Weaver,
Poverty Row Horrors!
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1993).
18
Jamy Swiss, talk given at the Amazing Meeting 3, Las Vegas, January 13-16, 2005.
19
Edmund D. Cohen, “The Religiosity of George W. Bush,”
Free Inquiry
17, no. 4 (2004): 39.
CHAPTER 7
1
Michael W. Passer, Ronald E. Smith, Michael L. Atkinson, John B. Mitchell, and Darwin W. Muir,
Psychology: Frontiers and Applications,
2nd Canadian ed. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2005).
2
John Bradshaw,
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child
(New York: Bantam Books, 1990).
3
David Hume,
A Treatise of Human Nature
(New York: Dover Books, 2003 [1740]).
4
Carl Sagan,
The Demon-Haunted World
(New York: Random House, 1995).
5
Sam Harris, Letter to the Editor,
New York Times
, December 5, 2006.
6
Sagan,
Demon-Haunted World
, p. 210.
7
Dan Barker,
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
(Madison, WI: FFRF, 1992).

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