Overview
Despite the tremendous importance of religious and secular attitudes and beliefs for personal development and decisions made in life, both the cognitive mechanisms and associated brain processes underlying such beliefs are largely unknown. Our project aims to characterize the neurobiological processes underlying the development of religious cognition from early childhood to adulthood from a cognitive-affective neuroscience perspective. Using behavioural and electroencephalography (EEG) techniques, we study rational and emotional responses to belief statements at different stages of life (childhood, adolescence and adulthood), in religious Christians and in Atheists. Our project is supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Research Results
Data collection for this project is now complete. Updates on the results of our research will be published on this website in due course.
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Riccardo Galli
Visiting Master student (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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Hannah Thatcher
Undergraduate psychology student |
Nadya Pohran Visiting Researcher
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