Mentalizing skills do not differentiate believers from non-believers, but credibility enhancing displays do.

Mentalizing skills do not differentiate believers from non-believers, but credibility enhancing displays do.

The ability to mentalize has been marked as an important cognitive mechanism enabling belief in supernatural agents. In five studies we cross-culturally investigated the relationship between mentalizing and belief in supernatural agents with large sample sizes (over 67,000 participants in total) and...

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Main Authors: David L R Maij, Frenk van Harreveld, Will Gervais, Yann Schrag, Christine Mohr, Michiel van Elk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5568287?pdf=render

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