The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life

By Jesse M. Bering. 2010

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding (2012, background): “, Waytz, Gray, Epley, & Wegner, 2010) cognitively underpin supernatural agent beliefs (e.g., Barrett, 2000; Bering, 2011; Boyer, 2001, 2003; Gray &Wegner, 2010), and reasoning about supernatural agents “piggy-backs” on established neural mechanisms that regulate reasoning about human minds.”
• Fear of Death and Supernatural Beliefs: Developing A New Supernatural Belief Scale to Test the Relationship (2013, background): “religious studies monographs on the CSR (Atran, 2002; Barrett, 2004; Bering, 2010; Boyer 2001; Pyysiäinen, 2009; Tremlin, 2006; Whitehouse, 2004; Wilson, 2002), selecting 10 commonly recurring types of supernatural entities and events.”
• When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking (2014, background): “Moreover, it has been noted that theory of mind is closely associated with agency detection, which in turn predicts a variety of belief systems, including supernatural beliefs and religion (e.g., Atran & Henrich, 2010; Bering, 2011).”