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Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts
Justin L. Barrett,Frank C. Keil +1 more
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By heightening subjects' awareness of their theological beliefs, this work was able to manipulate the degree of anthropomorphization, which indicates that God is unintentionally anthropomorphized in some contexts, perhaps as a means of representing poorly understood nonnatural entities.About:
This article is published in Cognitive Psychology.The article was published on 1996-12-01. It has received 551 citations till now.read more
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On seeing human: A three-factor theory of anthropomorphism.
TL;DR: A theory to explain when people are likely to anthropomorphize and when they are not is described, focused on three psychological determinants--the accessibility and applicability of anthropocentric knowledge, the motivation to explain and understand the behavior of other agents, and the desire for social contact and affiliation.
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The Illusion of Conscious Will
TL;DR: Wegner as mentioned in this paper argues that the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain and that it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality.
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Destination Personality: An Application of Brand Personality to Tourism Destinations
Yuksel Ekinci,Sameer Hosany +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt Aaker's brand personality scale to identify whether tourists ascribed personality traits to tourism destinations and found that perception of destination personality is 3-dimensional: sincerity, excitement, and conviviality.
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Who Sees Human?: The Stability and Importance of Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism
TL;DR: This research provides a measure of stable individual differences in anthropomorphism that predicts three important consequences for everyday life: the degree of moral care and concern afforded to an agent, the amount of responsibility and trust placed on an agent and the extent to which an agent serves as a source of social influence on the self.
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Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion
Scott Atran,Ara Norenzayan +1 more
TL;DR: Folkpsychology and agency provide the hope and promise of open-ended solutions through representations of counterfactual supernatural worlds that cannot be logically or empirically verified or falsified, because religious beliefs cannot be deductively or inductively validated.
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What is it like to be a bat
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The Future of an Illusion
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Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture
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Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
Keith J. Holyoak,Paul Thagard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the analogies of the past, present and future of analogies are discussed, including the analogical child, analogical scientist and analogical computer, and analogy as therapy.