Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding

By W. Gervais, Ara Norenzayan. 2012

258 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Health, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/dbd9cc8f91de92e00bc650e486bc2b9f33d6c294

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Johannes Keller
2. W. Gervais
3. Stefan Pfattheicher

In Health

1. W. Gervais

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Johannes Keller
2. W. Gervais
3. Stefan Pfattheicher
4. Isabelle Régner
5. Pascal Huguet
6. Randi A. Doyle
7. D. Voyer

Citations in the corpus

• The watching eyes phenomenon: The role of a sense of being seen and public self‐awareness (2015, background): “Individuals with strong public self-awareness are especially concerned about their reputation and how they appear in the eyes of others (Fenigstein et al., 1975; Gervais & Norenzayan, 2012).”
• In Godlessness We Distrust: Using Social Psychology to Solve the Puzzle of Anti-atheist Prejudice (2013, background): “As a result, belief in morally concerned gods is psychologically similar to the perceived presence of other humans (e.g., Dijksterhuis, Preston, Wegner & Aarts, 2008; Gervais & Norenzayan, 2012a).”