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Scott Atran on Sacred Values

Social Science Bites

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Social Science Bites is a series of interviews with leading social scientists. Scott Atron talks to David Edmonds about what he calls sacred values. Sacred values are those ideas wedded to emotions for which people are willing to make the costliest of sacrifices. Darwin called them values highly esteemed and even sacred that give immense advantage to any group.

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