The path to God is through the heart: Metaphoric self-location as a predictor of religiosity

Autor:	Clay Routledge, Adam K. Fetterman, Jacob Juhl, Andrew A. Abeyta, Michael D. Robinson, Brian P. Meier
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Metaphor Self media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Rationality 050105 experimental psychology Religiosity 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology General Psychology media_common Cognitive psychology Intuition
Zdroj:	Self and Identity. 19:650-672
ISSN:	1529-8876 1529-8868
DOI:	10.1080/15298868.2019.1651389
Popis:	Metaphors linking the heart to warm intuition and the head to cold rationality may capture important differences between people because some individuals locate the self primarily in the heart (heart-locators) and others locate the self primarily in the head (head-locators). Five studies (total N = 2575) link these individual differences to religious beliefs, which are thought to follow from warm and intuitive forms of thinking. As hypothesized, Study 1 found that religious beliefs were stronger among heart-locators than head-locators. Study 2 replicated this relationship in a more diverse sample and Study 3 replicated it in another country (Germany). Studies 4 and 5 focused on questions of mediation. Heart-locators believed in God to a greater extent partly because of empathy-related processes (Study 4) and partly because they tended to think in less analytic terms (Study 5). These studies significantly extend our knowledge of how conceptual metaphors interact with personality processes.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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