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| RE: What do you make of this? Electromagnetism can effect faith? | 2020-07-02, 04:21 AM | 4 |
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| What do you make of this? Electromagnetism can effect faith? |
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| So I actually found a recent paper by some of the same people. https://psyarxiv.com/n2w8u/ There is a difference in this experiment: apparently the original tested reductions in belief after priming people with the idea of death (introducing a threat) so they also included a neutral option this time too. They replicated the effect from the original study for the already threat primed stuff, but this effect wasn’t seemingly present in the neutral option. While they note a lack of statistical power (suggesting the need for a larger sample size) they suggest that the TMS could be interpreted to be effecting an alarm effect as opposed to directly effecting religious belief, due to the lack of effect in the neutral option.This paper also answered a question I had on the strength of the participants beliefs: they apparently specifically avoided people with strong beliefs. So honestly, after checking this out, this doesn’t seem to have to do with consciousness, but moreso the ego. I will say that I think their method for determining religious belief is fairly weak, basically a short survey of rating particular aspects of a Judeo Christian afterlife. Other than the clear Judeo Christian focus, it’s kinda hard to determine the level of a person’s actual beliefs solely from a number, might do some good to have them actually briefly write out their beliefs. | ||
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