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Benevolent God Concepts and Past Kind Behaviors Induce Generosity Toward Outgroups

Social Cognition, 2023
Humans behave more prosocially toward ingroup (vs. outgroup) members. This preregistered research examined the influence of God concepts and memories of past behavior on prosociality toward outgroups.
Young-eun Lee   +2 more
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Let God Judge Between Me and Thee: Activating God-Related Concepts Increases Overconfidence in Chinese Han and Bai People

The international journal for the psychology of religion, 2023
Risk compensation theory posits that high-risk environments lead to more cautiousness or conservatism. Previous research has shown that reminders of God’s protection can evoke a strong feeling of safety.
Heng Li
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Socio-Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Children’s Concepts of God

, 2020
The current study examined (a) the impact of religious socialization practices and parents’ concepts on the development of an abstract religious concept (i.e., God) in young children, and (b) whether or not children’s socio-cognitive ability moderates ...
Anondah Saide, R. Richert
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Kierkegaard’s Conception of God

Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract Philosophers have often misunderstood Kierkegaard's views on the nature and purposes of God due to a fascination with his earlier, pseudonymous works. We examine many of Kierkegaard's later works with the aim of setting forth an accurate view on this matter.
Paul K. Moser, Mark L. McCreary
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Imagined Conversations with God during Divine Struggles: Relationships with Global Views of God and Struggle-Specific Interactions

The Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 2022
In a sample of undergraduates who reported divine struggles (N= 290), we coded imagined conversations with God about the struggle for salient themes. We examined how these themes related to global views of God and struggle-specific responses to God.
J. Wilt   +5 more
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Concepts of God

Religious Studies, 1972
During World War I, Bertrand Russell's outspoken pacifism resulted in his being committed to jail. When he entered the prison, he was met by the warden who showed himself to be quite ecumenical in his religious beliefs, as indicated by this anecdote:‘I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particluars about me.
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Alternative Concepts of God

2016
Andrei A. Buckareff, Y. Nagasawa
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Gastwirth's ‘Concepts of God’

Religious Studies, 1973
Paul Gastwirth seems to me generally correct concerning our concepts of God (Religious Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 1972, pp. 147–52). But there are at least two points at which he needs to take his analysis further if he is to help us to think through the topic.
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God, concepts of

2018
Those whose conceptions of God stem from the major Eastern and Western religions think of God as an ultimate reality, the source or ground of all else, perfect and deserving of worship. Such a conception is common to both Eastern and Western religions. Some trace this to human psychology or sociology: Freud regarded God as a wish-fulfilling projection ...
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Particular Gods and Gods Personifying Concepts

1960
The objects of worship which we have so far considered have been solely nature gods. Many particular gods and gods representing the personification of certain concepts are also nature gods, but they are of a quite different character from the preceding ones.
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