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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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Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum
TL;DR: This article used Barrett's counterintuitiveness coding and quantifying scheme (CI-Scheme) to detect counterintuitive intentional agents in folktales and found that counterintuitive agents are more common than other types of counterintuitive objects.
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Longitudinal study of religious and spiritual transformation in adolescents attending young life summer camp: Assessing the epistemic, intrapsychic, and moral sociability functions of conversion.
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“I Just Don'T Get it”: Perceived Artists' Intentions Affect Art Evaluations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present participants with various artifacts and works of art, alongside differing levels of information regarding the artist's intentions, and ask them to rate the artifacts on artistic merit.
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Epistemology and Counterintuitiveness: Role and Relationship in Epidemiology of Cultural Representations
TL;DR: The authors found that counterintuitive ideas (MCI) had better recall than other items expressing necessary epistemic incongruence (i.e., analytically false), analytical true ideas, and ordinary control ideas.
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The relative unnaturalness of atheism: On why Geertz and Markússon are both right and wrong
TL;DR: Geertz and Markusson as mentioned in this paper argue that the belief in the supernatural is not as natural in a comparable respect as theism and that cultural conditions that upset ordinary function, cognitive effort, or a good degree of cultural scaffolding is necessary to move people away from their maturationally natural anchor-points.