JAY Did a lot of work on this subject. Across recorded history. Simple version:

JAY
Did a lot of work on this subject. Across recorded history. Simple version: through mindfulness, habit, ritual, hyper-socialization, and social construction of non-aggression. Religion is, as are most means of female magical thinking (woo woo) means of sedating neuroticism (worry), and empathizing (short-term prediction of individual’s emotions) instead of systematizing (longer-term prediction of groups and the world). Religion spreads via women for this reason. So do horoscopes, crystals, and all other ‘woo woo’ comforts. Complex version is that this behavior turns out to be necessary for extending a nervous system to track offspring by intution by auto associative prediction in time.