Religion is natural
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5831456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Bloom (0000-0003-2335-3389, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 147-151 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-755X • E-ISSN: 1467-7687 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00577.x |
| PMID | 17181713 |
| OpenAlex | W2104211545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
| References cited | 21 |
Despite its considerable intellectual interest and great social relevance, religion has been neglected by contemporary developmental psychologists. But in the last few years, there has been an emerging body of research exploring children's grasp of certain universal religious ideas. Some recent findings suggest that two foundational aspects of religious belief - belief in mind-body dualism, and belief in divine agents - come naturally to young children. This research is briefly reviewed, and some future directions are discussed
Dualism · Relevance · Religious belief · Child and Animal Learning Development · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Theory of Mind, Religiosity, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Professional physical scientists display tenacious teleological tendencies
Divine intuition
The evolution of misbelief
The origins of religious disbelief
Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief
Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief in a Personal God
Cognitive biases explain religious belief, paranormal belief, and belief in life’s purpose
Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena
Implementing Religious Characters of Early Children in the Pandemic Time of Covid 19
Advancing the Cognitive Science of Religion through Replication and Open Science
Tanrı İnancı
Religion as a Testing Ground for Cognitive Science
Causation, Responsibility, and Typicality
Inférence bayésienne, simplicité et probabilité a priori du théisme
Oral storytelling
Merely virtual virtue? The empathy machine hypothesis and the promise of virtual reality
It Is Belief in Dualism, and Not Free Will, That Best Predicts Helping
Christian physicalism and the biblical argument for dualism
Bidirectional associations between Tibetan Buddhism and vertical space
Only believers rely on God? A new measure to investigate Catholic faith automatic associations and their relationship with psychological well-being
Religion vs. the welfare state—the importance of cultural context for religious schematicity and priming
Ours is not to reason why
Does Meaning Motivate Magical Thinking Among Theists and Atheists
Happy Tweets
Peering into the clouds of glory
Further Exploring the Link Between Religion and Existential Health
Bringing free will down to Earth
I think, therefore I am? Examining conceptions of the self, soul, and mind
A free will needs a free mind
The cognitive science of religion
God as a White man
The separate roles of the reflective mind and involuntary inhibitory control in gatekeeping paranormal beliefs and the underlying intuitive confusions
I am happy in my faith
Demonic possession and deliverance in the diaspora
Albert Piette
Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing
A social anthropology of ghosts in twenty-first-century America
Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups
MCI theory
The impact of mortality awareness on meaning in life among Christians and atheists
Where one stops the car
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination
The boundary conditions of the hypersensitive agency detection device
Atheist primes reduce religiosity and subjective wellbeing
From drowning to debunking
Do minds switch bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies
Afterlife beliefs
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic
Cultural influences on the teleological stance
A computational perspective on faith
Supernatural monitoring and sanctioning in community-based resource management
Big Gods and the greater good
Using findings from the cognitive science of religion to understand current conflicts between religious and scientific ideologies
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion
Is there a window of opportunity for religiosity? Children and adolescents preferentially recall religious-type cultural representations, but older adults do not
Reasoning about nature’s agency and design in the cultural context of China
The role of experience in religion
The Biological Implausibility of the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy and What It Means for the Study of Infancy
The Theory of the Selfish Gene Applied to the Human Population
The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt
Thinking About God Causes Internal Reflection in Believers and Unbelievers of God
Feelings in the body
Psychedelic Experiences Increase Mind Perception but do not Change Atheist-Believer Status
Immortality of the Soul as an Intuitive Idea
Group Selection in the Evolution of Religion
Gods and Talking Animals
Biology, Culture and Coevolution
Are Atheists Implicit Theists
Mind-Body Dualism, Health, and Well-being in University Students
The “Ghost” in the Lab
The Gods as Latent Causes
Intuitive Conceptions of Dead Persons' Mentality
God of the Gaps’
Empathy and Exposure to Credible Religious Acts during Childhood Independently Predict Religiosity
Atheists Become Emotionally Aroused When Daring God to Do Terrible Things
Religion, Cognition, and the Myth of Conscious Will
On Naturalness, Innateness, and God-beliefs
Cognitive Science of Religion and the Study of Islam
Can Religion be Explained
Religious education and teaching young people about humanity
The essence of mentalistic agents
Folk teleology drives persistence judgments
Persistence through function preservation
Actual Causation and Compositionality
Mental simulation and meaning in life
Activating Christian religious concepts increases intolerance of ambiguity and judgment certainty
The Fate of a Healing Goddess
Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
The Cognitive Science of Religion and Islamic Theology
Naturalistic Explanation for Religious Belief
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain
Magical Potential
Theoretical and Empirical Foundations for a Unified Pyramid of Human Motivation
Mind-Body Dualism and Health Revisited
Ghosts, Divination, and Magic among the Nuosu
The Forgotten Proof
Religion and morality
The relative unnaturalness of atheism
The Cultural Transmission of Faith Why Innate Intuitions Are Necessary, but Insufficient, to Explain Religious Belief
Faces in the Clouds
An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior
Cognitive and Contextual Factors in the Emergence of Diverse Belief Systems
Children Creating Core Properties of Language
Leading scientists still reject God
Perceptual causality and animacy
The language bioprogram hypothesis
On The Language Instinct
My Brain Made Me Do It
Children's Acceptance of Conflicting Testimony
The Natural Emergence of Reasoning About the Afterlife as a Developmental Regularity
"Are Children "Intuitive Theists
Understanding Mortality and the Life of the Ancestors in Rural Madagascar
| Unique citing works | 108 |
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| Citations per year | 5,68 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |