God: Do I Have Your Attention?

Autor/inn/en	Colzato, Lorenza S.; van Beest, Ilja; van den Wildenberg, Wery P. M.; Scorolli, Claudia; Dorchin, Shirley; Meiran, Nachshon; Borghi, Anna M.; Hommel, Bernhard
Titel	God: Do I Have Your Attention?
Quelle	In: Cognition, 117 (2010) 1, S.87-94 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2010.07.003
Schlagwörter	Visual Stimuli; Attention; Religion; Judaism; Catholics; Comparative Analysis; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Judaismus; Katholik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Religion is commonly defined as a set of rules, developed as part of a culture. Here we provide evidence that practice in following these rules systematically changes the way people attend to visual stimuli, as indicated by the individual sizes of the global precedence effect (better performance to global than to local features). We show that this effect is significantly reduced in Calvinism, a religion emphasizing individual responsibility, and increased in Catholicism and Judaism, religions emphasizing social solidarity. We also show that this effect is long-lasting (still affecting baptized atheists) and that its size systematically varies as a function of the amount and strictness of religious practices. These findings suggest that religious practice induces particular cognitive-control styles that induce chronic, directional biases in the control of visual attention. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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