Priming of supernatural agent concepts and agency detection
In evolutionary approaches to religion it is argued that belief in supernatural agents is strongly related to a perceptual bias to over-detect the presence of agents in the environment. We report five experiments that investigate whether processing concepts about supernatural agents facilitates agen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2016
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-33 |
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Supernatural beliefs
B face / house categorization task B biological motion detection task B Religion B semantic priming B Agency Detection |
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