Believing is Seeing: Religiousness and Perceptual Expertise
Religiousness, as a chronically accessible cognitive construct, was assumed to be associated with perceptual expertise. Personal religion was expected to facilitate performance on a lexical decision task involving religious and nonreligious words. Participants made word/nonword judgments of trigrams...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2002
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-107 |
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| Summary: | Religiousness, as a chronically accessible cognitive construct, was assumed to be associated with perceptual expertise. Personal religion was expected to facilitate performance on a lexical decision task involving religious and nonreligious words. Participants made word/nonword judgments of trigrams of religious and nonreligious content. Religious, compared to nonreligious, participants made faster and more accurate judgments of the religious, compared to the nonreligious, stimulus words. A second study replicated the first and also found that perceptual expertise among religious individuals is related to the perceptual familiarity of the stimulus. The implications of the results for understanding of the influence of personal religion on social perception were discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/S15327582IJPR1202_02 |