The boundary conditions of the hypersensitive agency detection device: an empirical investigation of agency detection in threatening situations
It has been hypothesized that humans have evolved a hypersensitivity to detect intentional agents at a perceptual level, as failing to detect these agents may potentially be more harmful than incorrectly assuming that agents are absent. Following this logic, ambiguous threatening situations should l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2019
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-51 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Supernatural
/ Plot
/ Recognizing
/ Terror management theory
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
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intentionality detection
B hypersensitive agency detection device B agent detection B Evolutionary Psychology B cognitive science of religion B error management theory |
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