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Awe, Uncertainty, and Agency Detection
- PsychologyPsychological science
- 2014
It is found that awe increases both supernatural belief and intentional-pattern perception—two phenomena that have been linked to agency detection, or the tendency to interpret events as the consequence of intentional and purpose-driven agents.
Awe Activates Religious and Spiritual Feelings and Behavioral Intentions
- Psychology, Philosophy
- 2012
In two experiments, we investigated the role of awe in activating the association between religiosity/spirituality and related feelings and behavioral intentions. In Experiment 1, the induction of…
Small Telescopes
- PsychologyPsychological science
- 2015
This article introduces a new approach for evaluating replication results. It combines effect-size estimation with hypothesis testing, assessing the extent to which the replication results are…
In Gods we Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
- Psychology
- 2003
Every society has a religious system, in spite of the obvious costs that they impose on individuals and societies. What makes these religious systems appeal to individuals? How did they develop over…
On the belief in God : Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control
- Psychology
- 2008
Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety☆
- PsychologyJournal of experimental social psychology
- 2013