{"id":2631,"date":"2014-01-31T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2014-01-31T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:46:07","slug":"are-we-hard-wired-to-believe-were-immortal-belief-that-we-are-eternal-is-part-of-human-nature-and-develops-during-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/2014\/01\/31\/are-we-hard-wired-to-believe-were-immortal-belief-that-we-are-eternal-is-part-of-human-nature-and-develops-during-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we hard-wired to believe we&#8217;re IMMORTAL? Belief that we are eternal is part of human nature and develops during childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cdl\/files\/2014\/01\/dailymail-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dailymail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People across the world, regardless of their religion or culture, believe that humans are immortal, according to research.\u00a0A new study has shed some light on people\u2019s beliefs that a person&#8217;s soul or essence transcends the physical body\u2019s death. \u00a0Scientists think the belief that part of us is eternal emerges early in life and is part of our human nature, rather than something that is imposed on a person by a culture or religion.\u00a0Researchers from Boston University, led by Natalie Emmons, examined children\u2019s ideas about the time before conception and interviewed 283 children from two very different cultures in Ecuador. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2547450\/Are-hard-wired-believe-IMMORTAL-Belief-eternal-human-nature-develops-childhood.html#ixzz2s0G1IWo6\">Click here to read the article in the Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People across the world, regardless of their religion or culture, believe that humans are immortal, according to research.\u00a0A new study has shed some light on people\u2019s beliefs that a person&#8217;s soul or essence transcends the physical body\u2019s death. \u00a0Scientists think the belief that part of us is eternal emerges early in life and is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[216,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}