Editing Evolutionary psychology (section)

===Psychology of religion===
{{Main|Evolutionary psychology of religion}}
Adaptationist perspectives on [[religious belief]] suggest that, like all behavior, religious behaviors are a product of the human brain. As with all other organ functions, [[cognition]]'s functional structure has been argued to have a genetic foundation, and is therefore subject to the effects of natural selection and sexual selection. Like other organs and tissues, this functional structure should be universally shared amongst humans and should have solved important problems of survival and reproduction in ancestral environments. However, evolutionary psychologists remain divided on whether religious belief is more likely a consequence of evolved psychological adaptations,<ref name=Sosis>{{cite journal |year=2003 |title=Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: the evolution of religious behavior |journal=Evolutionary Anthropology |issue=6 |pages=264–74 |last1=Sosis |first1=R. |first2=C. |last2=Alcorta |doi=10.1002/evan.10120 |volume=12|s2cid=443130 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Szocik K, Van Eyghen H | title=Revising cognitive and evolutionary science of religion: Religion as an adaptation |publisher=Springer |location=Cham|year=2021|pages=49–81  |isbn=9783030635152}}</ref> or a byproduct of other cognitive adaptations.<ref>{{cite journal |year=2006 |title=Whence collective rituals? A cultural selection model of ritualized behavior|journal=American Anthropologist |issue=4 |pages=824–27 |last1=Lienard |first1=P. |first2=P. |last2=Boyer |doi=10.1525/aa.2006.108.4.814 |volume=108}}</ref>