God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations
Most Christians in Western cultures associate God with upper space and devil with lower space. Measuring this spatial association captures the implicit metaphorical representations of religious concepts. Previous studies have shown that implicit measurements of the belief in God increase when people...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-283 |
| Further subjects: | B
implicit religiosity
B Conceptual metaphor theory B Terror Management Theory B mortality salience B implicit association |
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