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Justin L. Barrett
Researcher at Fuller Theological Seminary
Publications - 88
Citations - 4514
Justin L. Barrett is an academic researcher from Fuller Theological Seminary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive science of religion & Counterintuitive. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 88 publications receiving 4225 citations. Previous affiliations of Justin L. Barrett include Calvin College & University of Michigan.
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How Ordinary Cognition Informs Petitionary Prayer
TL;DR: This article found that participants were more likely to ask a supercomputer or Superman to solve a problem through mechanistic intervention than God, while psychosocial agents (such as God) are expected to require physical contact to act on non-agents.
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Primed analytic thought and religiosity: The importance of individual characteristics.
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Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence
Emma Cohen,Justin L. Barrett +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the cognitive underpinnings of cross-culturally recurrent forms of possession belief are investigated and it is shown that successful possession concepts (e.g., those that entail the effective displacement of the host's agency by the possessing spirit's agency) emerge and spread, in part, because they effectively exploit universal cognitive mechanisms that deal with our everyday social and physical worlds and that this contributes to their enhanced incidence, communicability, memorability, and inferential potential relative to less cognitively optimal, less widespread possession concepts.
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Implicit theories of intellectual virtues and vices: A focus on intellectual humility
Peter L. Samuelson,Matthew J. Jarvinen,Thomas B. Paulus,Ian M. Church,Sam A. Hardy,Justin L. Barrett +5 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a series of studies into the implicit theory of an intellectually humble person, a wise person, and an intellectually arrogant person, comparing and contrasting three person-concepts, a complex portrait of an intellectual humble person emerges with particular epistemic, self-oriented, and other-oriented dimensions.
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Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief
TL;DR: In this paper, three scientific approaches to religion (Neurotheology, Group Selection, and Cognitive Science of Religion) are sketched, and five arguments against theistic belief arising from these approaches are discussed and evaluated.