@article{73cdb48481d94c2087bcae718a1bcd8e,
title = "Spontaneous Regression of a Keratoacanthoma Centrifugum Marginatum",
author = "Yesul Kim and Helm, \{Klaus F.\} and Billingsley, \{Elizabeth M.\} and Charlene Lam",
note = "Funding Information: Agent and Instrument in Judgements of Ritual E ffi cacy J esper S {\o}rensen , P ierre L i{\'e}nard and C helsea F eeny * ABSTRACT Justin Barrett and E. Thomas Lawson (2001) were among the fi rst to operationalize experimentally a traditional topic of anthropology: {\textquoteleft}ritual{\textquoteright}. Using a similar experimental protocol, the authors further investigate the cognitive underpinning of representations of ritual actions. Participants were asked to judge the likelihood of success of variants of a series of prototypical ritual actions. In line with Barrett and Lawson{\textquoteright}s fi ndings, it was expected that speci fi c intuitions would guide participants{\textquoteright} judgements about the well- formedness of ritual actions; that representation of superhuman agency would be piv- otal in those judgements; and that the role of the ritual agent would be conceived as fundamental. The present study was particularly focused on the e ff ect of changing Agent or Instruments in descriptions of a set of prototypical ritual actions. Following a second line of inquiry, contexts in which the prototypical actions were set were systematically manipulated. It was expected that this would a ff ect patterns of answers. No such con- textual e ff ect was found, but the study revealed signi fi cant di ff erences in how partici- pants appraised di ff erent changes a ff ecting Agent and Instrument. The authors fi nally speculate that speci fi c systems dedicated to the processing of information about Agent and Instrument might explain these fi ndings. 1. Introduction** The cognitive science of religion has within the last 15 years attempted to investigate how cognitive constraints can explain the form of religious ritual. In their in fl uential theory, E. Thomas Lawson and Robert * This research was made possible by a grant from the British Academy (SG-41137) which also funded our research assistant Chelsea Feeny; Jesper S{\o}rensen was founded by a Danish Research Foundation for the Humanities (273-05-0348); Pierre Li{\'e}nard was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queens University Belfast funded by the Templeton Foundation. ** The authors wish to thank Justin Barrett, Pascal Boyer, Tom Lawson, Anders Lisdorf, and Paulo Sousa for their comments. {\textcopyright} Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Journal of Cognition and Culture 6.3-4 JOCC\_6.3-4\_f7-463-482 9/20/06 9:59 AM Page 463 ",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
doi = "10.5826/dpc.0902a16",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "9",
pages = "157--159",
journal = "Dermatology Practical and Conceptual",
issn = "2160-9381",
publisher = "Mattioli 1885",
number = "2",
}