About the Authors

Pascal Boyer

pboyer@artsci.wustl.edu

Affiliation Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Pierre Lienard

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Jing Xu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB PL JX. Performed the experiments: PB PL JX. Analyzed the data: PB PL JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB PL JX. Wrote the paper: PB.