500 thousand studies later, scientists prove what everyone new anyway....
That religious people are mentally defective losers who live in vivid fantasy worlds, and they basically cannot differentiate fact from fiction...
https://www.rt.com/viral/364292-religious-supernatural-analytical-study/
Religious people have poor understanding of reality, controversial study finds
Researchers have controversially claimed that those with religious or supernatural beliefs don’t have a clear understanding of the physical world.
The findings from the University of Helsinki state that people with either religious or paranormal beliefs have a poorer understanding of the physical world, and focus on it less. They instead turn to their beliefs, accepting more supernatural answers relating to demons and gods.
Controversially, scientists claim that such “supernatural beliefs may thus reflect a broad, hyper-mentalistic cognitive phenotype,” adding that “extreme forms” of this can often be found among those with autism.
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In the results, it was found that religious people usually act on instinct over critical or analytical thinking.
Scientific explanations for physical and biological things such as flowers, volcanoes and wind were less likely to be understood by those with religious or supernatural beliefs. They instead apply human characteristics and attributes to the world around them and think inanimate objects are able to think and feel.
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Marjanna Lindeman and Annika Svedholm-Häkkinen, who carried out the research, found that those who believed in religion had lower “intuitive physics skills.”
“The more the participants believed in religious or other paranormal phenomena, the lower their intuitive physics skills, mechanical and mental rotation abilities, school grades in mathematics and physics, and knowledge about physical and biological phenomena were – and the more they regarded inanimate targets as mental phenomena,” they told The Independent.
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The pricks want $35 for the study:
https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/publications/skepticism(c00a9020-3a7d-4afb-ad45-d86666afe29d).html
Skepticism: Genuine unbelief or implicit beliefs in the supernatural?
Contribution to journal › A1 Refereed journal article
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Consciousness and Cognition |
| Volume | 42 |
| Pages | 216-228 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISSN | 1053-8100 |
| Digital Object Identifiers | |
| State | Published - May 2016 |
Research areas
- Implicit supernatural beliefs, Skepticism, Afterlife, Paranormal, Analytical thinking, DUAL-PROCESS THEORIES, PARANORMAL BELIEF, RELIGIOUS BELIEF, ASSOCIATION TEST, EXPLANATORY COEXISTENCE, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, CORE KNOWLEDGE, GOD, COGNITION, SELF
- 515 Psychology
Highlights
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- Implicit and explicit religious and non-religious supernatural beliefs were examined.
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- No overall evidence for skeptics’ implicit supernatural beliefs was found.
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- Non-analytical skeptics endorsed confusions that predispose to supernatural beliefs.
Abstract
We examined whether skeptics hold implicit supernatural beliefs or implicit cognitive underpinnings of the beliefs. In study 1 (N = 57), participants read a biological or a religious story about death. The story content had no effect on skeptics’ (or believers’) afterlife beliefs. Study 2 examined the relationships between religious and non-religious paranormal beliefs and implicit views about whether supernatural and religious phenomena are imaginary or real (n1 = 33, n2 = 31). The less supernatural beliefs were endorsed the easier it was to connect “supernatural” with “imaginary”. Study 3 (N = 63) investigated whether participants’ supernatural beliefs and ontological confusions differ between speeded and non-speeded response conditions. Only non-analytical skeptics’ ontological confusions increased in speeded conditions. The results indicate that skeptics overall do not hold implicit supernatural beliefs, but that non-analytically thinking skeptics may, under supporting conditions, be prone to biases that predispose to supernatural beliefs.
Keywords
- Implicit supernatural beliefs;
- Skepticism;
- Afterlife;
- Paranormal;
- Analytical thinking
© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-people-understand-world-less-study-shows-a7378896.html
Religious people understand the world less, study suggests
Scientists say believers in God more likely to think flowers and rocks can think and feel, and agree with statements like "stones sense the cold"
Religious people are more likely to have a poorer understanding of the world and are more likely to believe objects like rocks and paper have human qualities, scientists say.
Researchers at the University of Helsinki compared believers in God or the paranormal to people with autism after finding they tend to struggle to understand the realities of the world around us.
Religious beliefs were linked with a weaker ability to understand physical and biological phenomenon such as volcanoes, flowers, rocks and wind without giving them human qualities.
Believers were more likely to think that inanimate objects such as metal, oil, clothes and paper can think and feel, and agree with statements such as "Stones sense the cold".
Marjaana Lindeman and Annika Svedholm-Häkkinen, who completed the study, said: “The more the participants believed in religious or other paranormal phenomena, the lower their intuitive physics skills, mechanical and mental rotation abilities, school grades in mathematics and physics, and knowledge about physical and biological phenomena were… and the more they regarded inanimate targets as mental phenomena”.
The study defined "mental" as having human characteristics such as thoughts and sprit.
Researchers said their findings suggest people’s lack of understanding about the physical world means they apply their own, human characteristics to the whole universe, “resulting in belief in demons, gods, and other supernatural phenomena”.
This confusion between mental and physical qualities “has [also] been recognised mainly among ancient people and small children”, they added.
The scientists compared religious believers to people with autism, saying both struggle to distinguish between the mental and the physical, although autistic people are at the opposite end of the spectrum because they often see the world as entirely physical and struggle to understand the mental state of others.
Ms Lindeman and Ms Svedholm-Häkkinen asked 258 Finnish people to report how much they agreed that “there exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving God” and whether they believed in paranormal phenomena such as telepathy and visions of the future. They then matched their answers with a range of other factors, including exam results, survey answers and performances on different tests.
They also found that people who believe in God and the paranormal are more likely to be women and tend to base their actions on instinct rather than analytical thinking.
Previous studies have suggested religious people tend to have a lower IQ and are more likely to believe literally in what scientists called “bullshit statements” including phrases like “Earth wants water” and “Force knows its direction”.
However, they are also found to be happier and have greater life satisfaction than non-believers and are seen as more generous and trustworthy.
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