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 ====

  * [[http://intl-pss.sagepub.com/content/16/10/826.full|Explanations Versus Applications : The Explanatory Power of Valuable Beliefs]] (Preston & Epley, 2005, psycsci)
  * [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12179/abstract|The Ethics of Belief, Cognition, and Climate Change Pseudoskepticism: Implications for Public Discourse]] (Topics in Cognitive Science, 2016)

=== Implicit theories ===

  * [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/is-it-time-for-a-personal-growth-mindset/|Is it Time for a Personal Growth Mindset?]] (Scientific American)

==== Dualism ====

  * [[http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25494547|Adults Are Intuitive Mind-Body Dualists]] (JEP-G, 2014)
  * [[http://intl-pss.sagepub.com/content/23/10/1239.full.pdf+html|Mind vs. Body? Dualist Beliefs Linked with Less Concern for Healthy Behavior]] (PsycSci, 2012)




==== Belief in God / religion ====

  * [[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201202/five-causes-belief-in-god|Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today]] (non academic summary)
  * [[http://psr.sagepub.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266.full|The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations]] (PSPR, 2013)
  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103113000991|Activating Christian religious concepts increases intolerance of ambiguity and judgment certainty]] (JESP, 2013)
  * [[http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/01/0908374106.abstract|Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs (PNAS)]]
  * [[http://www.psypost.org/2012/04/death-anxiety-increases-atheists-unconscious-belief-in-god-10840|Death anxiety increases atheists’ unconscious belief in God]]
  * [[https://mcl.wjh.harvard.edu/mcl/pubs/Shenhav-Rand-Greene-JEPG11.pdf|Shenhav, A., Rand, D. G., & Greene, J. D. (2011, September 19). Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.]]
  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103107000054|Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events]] (Dijksterhuis etal, 2008, JESP)
  * [[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6080/493|Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief Will M. Gervais Ara Norenzayan - Science]]
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/39/11/1471.abstract|Different Effects of Religion and God on Prosociality With the Ingroup and Outgroup]] (2013, PSPB)
  * [[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9449169&fileId=S0140525X14001356|The Cultural evolution of Prosocial Religions]] (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014)
  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115000049#pq=2YpQzH|Without God, Everything Is Permitted? The Reciprocal Influence of Religious and Meta-Ethical Beliefs]] (JESP, 2015)
  * [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12232/abstract|How Children and Adults Represent God's Mind]] (Cognitive Science, 2015)
  * [[http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/4/374.abstract|Anticipating Divine Protection? Reminders of God Can Increase Nonmoral Risk Taking]] (PsycSci, 2015)
  * [[http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/12/23/1512120113.abstract|Thinking from God’s perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever]] (PNAS, 2015)
  * [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16980.html|Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality]] (Nature, 2016)
  * [[http://spp.sagepub.com/content/7/3/256|There But for the Grace of God Counterfactuals Influence Religious Belief and Images of the Divine]] (SPPS, 2016)
  * [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25402678|The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies]] (JPSP, 2016)


==== Belief in supernatural / luck ====

  * [[http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0039048|Divergent Effects of Beliefs in Heaven and Hell on National Crime Rates]] - PLoS One ([[http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2012/6/belief-hell-according-international-data-associated-reduced-crime|press release]])
  * [[http://justinhepler.com/publications/5.pdf#hs0125|Neuroscience and the soul: Competing explanations for the human experience]] (Cognition, 2013)
  * [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.12072/abstract|Beliefs in moral luck: When and why blame hinges on luck]] (British Journal of Psychology, 2014) 
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/12/23/0146167214565055|Reliance on Luck - Identifying Which Achievement Goals Elicit Superstitious Behavior]] (PSPB, 2015) ([[http://www.medicaldaily.com/superstition-comes-lacking-sense-control-science-behind-good-luck-charms-319098|covered here]])
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/42/1/104.abstract?rss=1|It’s the End of the World and I Feel Fine Soul Belief and Perceptions of End-of-the-World Scenarios]] (PSPB, 2016)
  * [[http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13421-015-0563-x|Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics: a large-scale testof the cognitive differences hypothesis]] (Mem Cog, 2016) ([[http://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/02/why-do-so-many-people-believe-in.html?m=1|reviewed in BPS]])


==== Belief in science / atheism  ====

  * [[http://www.bostonreview.net/arts-culture/can-science-deliver-benefits-religion|Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion?]] (Boston Review, popular media)
  * [[http://www.bu.edu/childcognition/publications/2012_KelemenRottmanSeston.pdf|Professional Physical Scientists Display Tenacious Teleological Tendencies: Purpose-Based Reasoning as a Cognitive Default]] (JEP-G, 2013, [[http://supp.apa.org/psycarticles/supplemental/a0030399/a0030399_supp.html|Supplement]]).
  * [[http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/faith_in_science_and_religion_truth_authority_and_the_orderliness_of_nature.html|No Faith in Science - Why the Higgs boson is not like a sea of milk that sustains the gods]] (Slate, 2013)
  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103113001042|Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety]] (JESP, 2013forthcoming)
  * [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22059841|Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice]] (JPSP, 2011)
  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715001080|Override the controversy: Analytic thinking predicts endorsement of evolution]] (Cognition, 2015)
  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691630160X|Belief in scientific–technological progress and life satisfaction: The role of personal control]] (PID, 2016)
  * [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tops.12174/full|Tensions Between Science and Intuition Across the Lifespan]] (TiCS, 2016)

==== Belief in good and evil ====

  * [[http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/experiencing-awe-increases-belief-in-the-supernatural.html|Experiencing Awe Increases Belief in the Supernatural review]] / [[http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~jessegra/papers/Valdesolo%20&%20Graham%20(in%20press)%20-%20Awe,%20Uncertainty%20and%20Agency%20Detection.pdf|Article]] (PsycSci, 2013inpress)
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/30/0146167213500997.abstract?&location1=all&location2=all&row_operator2=and&term_operator1=and&term_operator2=and&ct|Fighting the Good Fight The Relationship Between Belief in Evil and Support for Violent Policies]] (PSPB, 2013)
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/41/8/1069.abstract|Moral Vitalism Seeing Good and Evil as Real, Agentic Forces Brock Bastian]] (PSPB, 2015)



==== Other ====

  * [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027712000285|Windows to the soul: Children and adults see the eyes as the location of the self]] (Starmans & Bloom, 2012, Cognition).
  * [[http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/09/0956797615571017.full|Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement]] (Psychological Science, 2015)
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/32/8/1050.full.pdf|1050Long Ago It Was Meant to Be: The InterplayBetween Time, Construal, and Fate Beliefs]] (PSPB, 2006)
  * [[https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts|The new mind control]] (Aeon, 2016) about tech companies manipulating minds
  * [[http://psp.sagepub.com/content/42/1/104.abstract|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 [[http://www.psypost.org/2016/03/belief-immortal-soul-makes-believers-accepting-end-world-scenarios-41372|PsyPost]]