Belief in God / Religion / Soul / After life / Science readings [Gilad Feldman Research WIKI]

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Belief in God / Religion / Soul / After life / Science readings

Beliefs in general

Explanations Versus Applications : The Explanatory Power of Valuable Beliefs (Preston & Epley, 2005, psycsci)
The Ethics of Belief, Cognition, and Climate Change Pseudoskepticism: Implications for Public Discourse (Topics in Cognitive Science, 2016)

Implicit theories

Is it Time for a Personal Growth Mindset? (Scientific American)

Dualism

Adults Are Intuitive Mind-Body Dualists (JEP-G, 2014)
Mind vs. Body? Dualist Beliefs Linked with Less Concern for Healthy Behavior (PsycSci, 2012)

Belief in God / religion

Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today (non academic summary)
The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations (PSPR, 2013)
Activating Christian religious concepts increases intolerance of ambiguity and judgment certainty (JESP, 2013)
Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs (PNAS)
Death anxiety increases atheists’ unconscious belief in God
Shenhav, A., Rand, D. G., & Greene, J. D. (2011, September 19). Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events (Dijksterhuis etal, 2008, JESP)
Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief Will M. Gervais Ara Norenzayan - Science
Different Effects of Religion and God on Prosociality With the Ingroup and Outgroup (2013, PSPB)
The Cultural evolution of Prosocial Religions (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014)
Without God, Everything Is Permitted? The Reciprocal Influence of Religious and Meta-Ethical Beliefs (JESP, 2015)
How Children and Adults Represent God's Mind (Cognitive Science, 2015)
Anticipating Divine Protection? Reminders of God Can Increase Nonmoral Risk Taking (PsycSci, 2015)
Thinking from God’s perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever (PNAS, 2015)
Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality (Nature, 2016)
There But for the Grace of God Counterfactuals Influence Religious Belief and Images of the Divine (SPPS, 2016)
The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies (JPSP, 2016)

Belief in supernatural / luck

Divergent Effects of Beliefs in Heaven and Hell on National Crime Rates - PLoS One (press release)
Neuroscience and the soul: Competing explanations for the human experience (Cognition, 2013)
Beliefs in moral luck: When and why blame hinges on luck (British Journal of Psychology, 2014)
Reliance on Luck - Identifying Which Achievement Goals Elicit Superstitious Behavior (PSPB, 2015) (covered here)
It’s the End of the World and I Feel Fine Soul Belief and Perceptions of End-of-the-World Scenarios (PSPB, 2016)
Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics: a large-scale testof the cognitive differences hypothesis (Mem Cog, 2016) (reviewed in BPS)

Belief in science / atheism

Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion? (Boston Review, popular media)
Professional Physical Scientists Display Tenacious Teleological Tendencies: Purpose-Based Reasoning as a Cognitive Default (JEP-G, 2013, Supplement).
No Faith in Science - Why the Higgs boson is not like a sea of milk that sustains the gods (Slate, 2013)
Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety (JESP, 2013forthcoming)
Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice (JPSP, 2011)
Override the controversy: Analytic thinking predicts endorsement of evolution (Cognition, 2015)
Belief in scientific–technological progress and life satisfaction: The role of personal control (PID, 2016)
Tensions Between Science and Intuition Across the Lifespan (TiCS, 2016)

Belief in good and evil

Experiencing Awe Increases Belief in the Supernatural review / Article (PsycSci, 2013inpress)
Fighting the Good Fight The Relationship Between Belief in Evil and Support for Violent Policies (PSPB, 2013)
Moral Vitalism Seeing Good and Evil as Real, Agentic Forces Brock Bastian (PSPB, 2015)

Other

Windows to the soul: Children and adults see the eyes as the location of the self (Starmans & Bloom, 2012, Cognition).
Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement (Psychological Science, 2015)
1050Long Ago It Was Meant to Be: The InterplayBetween Time, Construal, and Fate Beliefs (PSPB, 2006)
The new mind control (Aeon, 2016) about tech companies manipulating minds
It’s the End of the World and I Feel Fine - Soul Belief and Perceptions of End-of-the-World Scenarios (Lifshin et al., 2016, PSPB) | covered on PsyPost

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