Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering

Jesse Bering is a reader in the School of History and Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and popular essays on topics ranging from the afterlife to university students' conceptions of destiny. He is an American currently living in a small village in Northern Ireland.

Articles by Jesse Bering

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Getting your head out of the clouds

  • 15 April 2008

Jesse Bering looks into reasons why people believe in the afterlife despite "scientifically derived data" to the contrary

The afterlife is an oxymoron

  • 14 April 2008
  • 3 comments

To look further into the theme of the current magazine issue "Belief is back," the Faith Column will hear from writers on the afterlife. Jesse Bering discusses the concept of the afterlife from a psychological perspective.

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