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Showing posts with label Psychology of Belief Part 9: Agenticity. Show all posts
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Saturday, 4 January 2014

Psychology of Belief Part 9: Agenticity



Answering the question of why people keep seeing "God" in perfectly natural phenomena.

Note that the second experiment was intended to be given to children. The bit with the pencil and the tiger is even verbatim with the actual experimental procedure. So if it seems a little condescending, then understand that it was designed for a five-year-old.