Supernatural attributions: Seeing god, the devil, demons, spirits, fate, and karma as causes of events

JJ Exline, JA Wilt - Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For many people worldwide, supernatural beliefs and attributions—those focused on God,
the devil, demons, spirits, an afterlife, karma, or fate—are part of everyday life. Although not …

A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond

G Pennycook - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

[图书][B] Not born yesterday: The science of who we trust and what we believe

H Mercier - 2020 - degruyter.com
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The psychology of nonbelievers

F Uzarevic, TJ Coleman III - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nonbelief relates to open-minded and analytic thinking styles, which likely
interacts with cultural influences.•Nonbelievers endorse a variety of beliefs and worldviews …

Cognitive flexibility and religious disbelief

L Zmigrod, PJ Rentfrow, S Zmigrod, TW Robbins - Psychological research, 2019 - Springer
Cognitive flexibility is operationalized in the neuropsychological literature as the ability to
shift between modes of thinking and adapt to novel or changing environments. Religious …

The need for intellectual diversity in psychological science: Our own studies of actively open-minded thinking as a case study

KE Stanovich, ME Toplak - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Actively open-minded thinking (AOT) is measured by questionnaire items that tap the
willingness to consider alternative opinions, the sensitivity to evidence contradictory to …

Religious Americans have less positive attitudes toward science, but this does not extend to other cultures

J McPhetres, J Jong… - Social Psychological and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
It is commonly claimed that science and religion are logically and psychologically at odds
with one another. However, previous studies have mainly examined American samples; …

The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity

S Hoogeveen, JM Haaf, JA Bulbulia, RM Ross… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
People tend to evaluate information from reliable sources more favourably, but it is unclear
exactly how perceivers' worldviews interact with this source credibility effect. In a large and …

[PDF][PDF] Cognitive reflection, life satisfaction, emotional balance and job performance

M Lado, I Otero, JF Salgado - Psicothema, 2021 - academia.edu
Abstract Resumen Background: The validity of individual difference variables for predicting
important life phenomena, such as job performance, has been studied for over a century …

Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice

CJM White, A Norenzayan - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Karma is believed to be a source of supernatural justice through which actions lead to
morally congruent outcomes, within and across lifetimes. It is a central tenet of many world …