#iacesr — Public Fediverse posts

Thanks to the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of #Religion for letting me remotely present to their conference in Czechia not-yet-published meta-analyses of studies of #atheism and reflection across languages.

#IACESR https://iacesr.com/conferences

An #IACESR post that had to wait until I caught my train:

How do people expect believers respond to answered and unanswered #prayer?

Ze (Kevin) Hong found that #Muslims in his research assistants' social network expected *more* prayer and #faith regardless of whether believers' prayers were answered ("success[ful]").

Notably, participants expected bigger increases in belief after answered than unanswered prayers.

Follow Kevin on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ze-Hong

#religion #xPhi #theism

Here were some of my favorite posters at #IACESR:

1. Religious people saw costs as benefits in a public goods game, as #CostlySignalingTheory should predict (Martin Lang et al.: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1BlRau3nusYtebnumKZH5U9ocgoFgCHW6?usp=drive_link)

2. Religious #Fundamentalism correlated with Need for Cognitive Closure in #Indonesia (Rena Latifa et al.: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rena-latifa-903742237)

3. Perception of divine #forgiveness predicted feeling *more* #guilt (but less #shame) and more, among #Catholics (Carmen Callizo et al.: https://osf.io/ehny5/?view_only=3dadc2913b9249008afdb50c8567baf3)

On to my second #Oxford conference:

The 8th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive (and Evolutionary) #Science of #religion (#IACESR, formerly #IACSR)

iacesr.com/conferences

#Spirituality seems like one of the themes of this year's meeting.

Note: my presentation (top post) began with what I presented in 2018.

(Feels appropriate that my route to the venue takes me down Divinity Road)

#psychology #neuroscience #anthropology #philosophy #sociology #socialScience