After God’s image: prayer leads people with positive God beliefs to read less hostility in others’ eyes

Across cultures and historical periods, people have attributed human traits to the divine. Because of the similarity between people’s mental representations of God and their mental representations of others, people’s perceptions of God may carry over to people’s perceptions of others, especially whe...

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Authors: Meijer-van Abbema, Marieke (Author) ; Koole, Sander L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 206-222
Further subjects:B mindreading
B perception prayer
B prosocial
B Image
B God
B Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
B Trust
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