APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Intutions about God and Satan: The Relationship of Mentalizing and Imagination with the Experience of Supernatural Good and Evil
- Edman Laird
Northwestern College - Paige Boote
Northwestern College - Ethan Husbands
Northwestern College - Taelor Lamansky
Northwestern College - Rebekah Muilenburg
Northwestern College - Hannah Paauw
Northwestern College - Bailey Swain
Northwestern College
Abstract
Believers in relational deities conceptualize god(s) as agents with mental states. The ability to imagine other minds may be one of the cognitive foundations of religious belief. Research on this relationship is mixed, however. This study tests this relationship across experiences of supernatural good and evil rather than abstract beliefs.
Religion
