Dr. J. Anderson Thomson Jr. is a psychiatrist in Charlottesville, Va., and a trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He is interested in the new cognitive neuroscience of religious belief — why human minds generate, accept and spread religious ideas — and spoke on the subject at the American Atheists’ 2009 convention. He has also talked and written on other religion-related topics, including religiously inspired suicide terrorism.
| Website | http://www.jandersonthomson.com/ |
| Email address | jat4m@eservices.virginia.edu |
| Phone number | 434-296-2801 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Death, Ethics, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | United States of America, Virginia |
| Languages | English |