Religiosity and the formulation of causal attributions
| Autor: | Jennifer Vonk, Jerrica Pitzen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Religiosity Philosophy Locus of control Fundamentalism Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology (miscellaneous) Causation Valence (psychology) Attribution Psychology Religious orientation Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Thinking & Reasoning. 22:119-149 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0708 1354-6783 |
| Popis: | Researchers have suggested that religious individuals engage primarily in intuitive over analytic processing. We investigated a connection between specific aspects of religiosity and the attribution of causation to social and physical events. College undergraduates completed measures of religiosity online and were asked to determine the causes of events that varied in type, outcome, and likelihood, as well as the personality characteristics of the protagonist. Individuals with greater intrinsic religious orientation, fundamentalism, who viewed God as loving, who were more dogmatic, and had an external locus of control were more likely to attribute supernatural phenomena to events compared to those lower in those traits. Supernatural causation was invoked more often when the character of the protagonist and the outcome of social event matched in valence (both positive or both negative) than when they did not match (e.g., character positive, outcome negative). Individuals low and high in religiosity... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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