An integrated review of recent research on the relationships between religious belief, political ideology, authoritarianism, and prejudice

JA Cuevas, BL Dawson - Psychological Reports, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Religious ideology and extremism have had an increasing influence on political agendas in
the United States and much of the developed world in the past 60 years, with right-wing …

Neuropsychology of executive functions in patients with focal lesion in the prefrontal cortex: A systematic review

RG Jose, AS Samuel, MM Isabel - Brain and Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Executive functions are conceptualized as a set of cognitive processes that coordinate more
basic processes for the resolution of complex behaviors. This neuronal substrate is believed …

Neural correlates of mystical experience

I Cristofori, J Bulbulia, JH Shaver, M Wilson, F Krueger… - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
Mystical experiences, or subjectively believed encounters with a supernatural world, are
widely reported across cultures and throughout human history. Previous theories speculate …

Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism

W Zhong, I Cristofori, J Bulbulia, F Krueger, J Grafman - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
Beliefs profoundly affect people's lives, but their cognitive and neural pathways are poorly
understood. Although previous research has identified the ventromedial prefrontal cortex …

A neurology of the conservative-liberal dimension of political ideology

MF Mendez - The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical …, 2017 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict.
There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual …

The dark side of morality–Neural mechanisms underpinning moral convictions and support for violence

CI Workman, KJ Yoder, J Decety - AJOB neuroscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
People are motivated by shared social values that, when held with moral conviction, can
serve as compelling mandates capable of facilitating support for ideological violence. The …

Beyond a rod through the skull: A systematic review of lesion studies of the human ventromedial frontal lobe

LQ Yu, IP Kan, JW Kable - Cognitive neuropsychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Neuropsychological studies from the past century have associated damage to the
ventromedial frontal lobes (VMF) with impairments in a variety of domains, including …

Damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is associated with impairments in both spontaneous and deliberative moral judgments

CD Cameron, J Reber, VL Spring, D Tranel - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Implicit moral evaluations—spontaneous, unintentional judgments about the moral status of
actions or persons—are thought to play a pivotal role in moral experience, suggesting a …

The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions

I Cristofori, S Cohen-Zimerman, J Bulbulia… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Religious beliefs emerged in conjunction with moral beliefs, political, and legal beliefs
(Cristofori and Grafman, 2017). As pointed out by Oviedo and Szocik (Oviedo and Szocik …

Neural underpinnings of the human belief system

I Cristofori, J Grafman - … of believing: The acquisition, maintenance, and …, 2017 - Springer
Human beings are wired to believe. These beliefs–including moral, legal, political, and
religious beliefs–are extremely important because they can define a person's character and …