Reflection increases belief in God through self-questioning among non-believers

dc.contributor.authorYılmaz, Onurcan
dc.contributor.authorİşler, Ozan
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-29T09:52:49Z
dc.date.available2020-06-29T09:52:49Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe 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.citation18
dc.identifier.endpage657en_US
dc.identifier.issn1930-2975en_US
dc.identifier.issn1930-2975
dc.identifier.issue6en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85077919787en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage649en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/2969
dc.identifier.volume14en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000500273100003en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.institutionauthorYılmaz, Onurcanen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSOC Judgment & Decision Makingen_US
dc.relation.journalJudgment and Decision Makingen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectReflectionen_US
dc.subjectIntuitionen_US
dc.subjectAnalytic cognitive styleen_US
dc.subjectBeliefen_US
dc.subjectBelief in God or godsen_US
dc.titleReflection increases belief in God through self-questioning among non-believersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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