Eleanor Schille-Hudson, Stanford University – The Problem-Solving Power of Prayer
Apr 22, 2025•3 min
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Episode description
Is prayer a form of problem solving for the person praying? Eleanor Schille-Hudson, postdoctoral research scientist in the department of anthropology at Stanford University, discusses why it may be the case. A cognitive scientist by training, she studies how people rely on their priors, habituated behaviors, social networks, and cultural context to make sense of […]
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