How do we make moral choices?
Most of us don’t often reflect on the machinery of our moral reasoning. When we do think about it, we may fall back on this […]
Brain networks linked to religious cognition
Are religious beliefs fundamentally different, or are they simply the result of cognitive systems built for interactions with other human beings projected onto a supposed […]
Religious views on evolution more diverse than usually thought
Religion and evolution are in fundamental conflict with each other, right? Perhaps not, at least not necessarily for many religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, […]
IN FOCUS: Religion, gender, and age
Recent polls conducted by the Gallup Organization (2006) as well as the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” (2008; hereafter […]
Bibliography on the Scientific Study of the Left-Right Ideological Spectrum in Politics, Religion, and Morality
This bibliography contains important resources from a wide variety of disciplines that have something to offer to the scientific study of the left-right ideological spectrum […]
Bibliography on Religious and Spiritual Experiences
This bibliography contains important representatives from most aspects of the entire field of the academic study of religious and spiritual experiences. It is far from […]
Natural religion?
Despite many famous examples of contemporary atheism in the media, and often highly dubious claims of religions, widespread belief continues. Why? In a recent essay […]
Acceptance of supernatural beliefs
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past half-century or so of evolutionary science, it’s that natural selection often works in unexpected ways. The […]
Is the brain a computer?
Can human thought be understood as an elaborate form of computation? A quick survey of some of the most influential cognitive scientists (including Steven Pinker […]
Religion brings sadness to some
People participate in religion because it makes them happy, right? Sure – plenty of studies have indicated a correlation between religious involvement and mental health, […]