APS

31st APS Annual Convention

Using Implicit Measures in the Scientific Study of Religion

Friday, May 24, 2019 · Washington, DC

Oral · Cognitive

A major challenge for the scientific study of religion – and for psychology more broadly – is the measurement of belief. This multidisciplinary symposium focuses on implicit religious attitudes and beliefs, and new psychological and neurocognitive techniques that have been developed to measure them.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Robert RossChair
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Tania LombrozoDiscussant
    Princeton University

Presentations

  1. Measuring Supernatural Belief Implicitly Using the Affect Misattribution ProcedureRobert Ross
  2. Acoustic-Phonetic Markers of Religious Experience in Spoken PrayerUffe Schjoedt
  3. Using Neurocognitive Measures to Study Implicit UnbeliefMichiel van Elk
  4. Novel Uses for Implicit Measures of Religious AttitudesMichael Brownstein