Tanya Marie Luhrmann

Department of Anthropology / Stanford University

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My Research

  • Unusual Sensory Experiences
  • Absorption
  • Theory of Mind
  • Prayer and things of the spirit
  • Psychiatric Distress
  • Other projects

Theory of Mind

Our work is beginning to demonstrate that the way people draw inferences about the minds of others, and about their own minds, shapes their mental experience in a variety of ways.

  • Theory of Mind in Suomen Antropologi
  • Encountering the supernatural

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