Religious Intuitions and the Nature of “Belief”
Scientific interest in religion often focusses on the “puzzle of belief”: how people develop and maintain religious beliefs despite a lack of evidence and the significant costs that those beliefs incur. A number of researchers have suggested that humans are predisposed towards supernatural thinking,...
Main Authors: | Alogna Victoria K., Bering Jesse, Balkcom Evan, Halberstadt Jamin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2019-10-01
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Series: | Studia Humana |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2019-0025 |
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