International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion

The International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR) is a group of smart people who study how religion works in our brains. They want to understand why people believe in different religions and why they behave in certain ways because of their religion. They use a lot of big words like "cognition" and "religion" but what they do is like trying to figure out why kids like cookies or why we feel scared in the dark. They do it to learn more about how people work and think, and how our beliefs affect our behavior.