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Shamanism and the psychosis continuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

Robert M. Ross  and
Ryan McKay
Robert M. Ross
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PE, United Kingdom. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. robross45@yahoo.com.au https://www.ccd.edu.au/people/profile.php?memberID=595
Ryan McKay
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. robross45@yahoo.com.au https://www.ccd.edu.au/people/profile.php?memberID=595 Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom. Ryan.McKay@rhul.ac.uk https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ryan-mckay_cda72457-6d2a-4ed6-91d7-cfd5904b91e4.html
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Abstract

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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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