Vancouver Sun: Renowned University of B.C. social psychologist Ara Norenzayan, 37, spent his teenage years in bomb-ravaged Lebanon thinking he could die at any moment in a civil war largely fuelled by religion. Recently, Norenzayen has earned an international reputation for his ground-breaking research into trying to answer the question: How does religion affect the way people behave, pro and con? Or, as Norenzayan succinctly puts it: “What is it about religion that can turn nice people into murderers?” Read more here.

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