Reasoning about nature’s agency and design in the cultural context of China
Research has found that non-religious adults have an automatic tendency to construe natural phenomena as intentionally created. Related work has focused on whether Western and non-Western adults spontaneously assign functions to natural phenomena but, to date, no studies have explored whether an ass...
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| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 156-178 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Cultural system
/ Atheism
/ Natural phenomenon
/ Agency (Law)
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Design
B Nature B Agency B dual process B China B Intention |
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| 520 | |a Research has found that non-religious adults have an automatic tendency to construe natural phenomena as intentionally created. Related work has focused on whether Western and non-Western adults spontaneously assign functions to natural phenomena but, to date, no studies have explored whether an assumption of intentional origins extends to a non-Western culture without an Abrahamic cultural tradition and associated design discourse. We therefore explored whether adults in China display an intentional design bias. Participants performed a speeded judgment task in which they evaluated whether depicted items were intentionally created or not. Chinese adults favored a design-based construal of natural phenomena under processing constraints. We also created a novel culturally sensitive survey to more fully document supernatural beliefs and practices. The survey confirmed participants’ primarily atheistic self-identification while also revealing various supernatural practices and animistic beliefs. Aspects of these folk beliefs positively predicted design intuitions about nature. Cumulatively, these results demonstrate that intuitions about intentional origins are present independent of any Western creationist discourse or Abrahamic God belief. They provide first evidence of a potentially universal intentional design bias in adults. They also point to the need for more nuanced, culturally sensitive, survey approaches to explicit supernatural belief and practice. | ||
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