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)
Belief in God / religion
- Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today (non academic summary)
- Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events (Dijksterhuis etal, 2008, JESP)
- The Cultural evolution of Prosocial Religions (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014)
- How Children and Adults Represent God's Mind (Cognitive Science, 2015)
Belief in supernatural / luck
- Beliefs in moral luck: When and why blame hinges on luck (British Journal of Psychology, 2014)
Belief in science / atheism
- Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion? (Boston Review, popular media)
- Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety (JESP, 2013forthcoming)
Belief in good and evil
- Experiencing Awe Increases Belief in the Supernatural review / Article (PsycSci, 2013inpress)
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)
- 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