Reflection Increases Belief in God Through Self-Questioning Among Non-Believers

dc.contributor.author Yılmaz, Onurcan
dc.contributor.author Yılmaz, Onurcan
dc.contributor.author İşler, Ozan
dc.contributor.other Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-29T09:52:49Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-29T09:52:49Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.description.abstract The dual-process model of the mind predicts that religious belief will be stronger for intuitive decisions, whereas reflective thinking will lead to religious disbelief (i.e., the intuitive religious belief hypothesis). While early research found intuition to promote and reflection to weaken belief in God, more recent attempts found no evidence for the intuitive religious belief hypothesis. Many of the previous studies are underpowered to detect small effects, and it is not clear whether the cognitive process manipulations used in these failed attempts worked as intended. We investigated the influence of intuitive and reflective thought on belief in God in two large-scale preregistered experiments (N = 1,602), using well-established cognitive manipulations (i.e., time-pressure with incentives for compliance) and alternative elicitation methods (between and within-subject designs). Against our initial hypothesis based on the literature, the experiments provide first suggestive then confirmatory evidence for the reflective religious belief hypothesis. Exploratory examination of the data suggests that reflection increases doubts about beliefs held regarding God's existence. Reflective doubt exists primarily among non-believers, resulting in an overall increase in belief in God when deciding reflectively. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 18
dc.identifier.endpage 657 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1930-2975 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1930-2975
dc.identifier.issue 6 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85077919787 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 649 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/2969
dc.identifier.volume 14 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000500273100003 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.institutionauthor Yılmaz, Onurcan en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher SOC Judgment & Decision Making en_US
dc.relation.journal Judgment and Decision Making en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 22
dc.subject Reflection en_US
dc.subject Intuition en_US
dc.subject Analytic cognitive style en_US
dc.subject Belief en_US
dc.subject Belief in God or gods en_US
dc.title Reflection Increases Belief in God Through Self-Questioning Among Non-Believers en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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