Belief in a god or gods is a central feature in the lives of billions of people and a topic of perennial interest within psychology. However, research over the past half decade has achieved a new level of understanding regarding both the ultimate and proximate causes of belief in God. Ultimate causes—the evolutionary influences on a trait—shed light on the adaptive value of belief in God and the reasons why a tendency toward this belief exists in humans. Proximate causes—the immediate influences on the expression of a trait—explain variation and changes in belief. We review this research and discuss remaining barriers to a fuller understanding of belief in God.
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Cox, Daniel - Jones, Robert P. I Know What You Did Last Sunday: Measuring Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Behavior, Belief, and Identity. Washington: Public Religion Research Institute, 2014.
Epley, Nicholas vd. “Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds”. Psychological Science 19/2 (ubat 2008), 114-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02056.x
Forstmann, Matthias - Burgmer, Pascal. “Adults Are Intuitive Mind-Body Dualists”. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General 144/1 (Şubat 2015), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000045
Gervais, Will M. vd. “The Cultural Transmission of Faith Why Innate Intuitions Are Necessary, but Insufficient, to Explain Religious Belief”. Religion 41/3 (01 Eylül 2011), 389-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2011.604510
Gervais, Will M. vd. “Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists”. Nature Human Behaviour 1/8 (07 Ağustos 2017), 0151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0151
Gervais, Will M. - Najle, Maxine B. “How Many Atheists Are There?” Social Psychological and Personality Science 9/1 (01 Ocak 2018), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617707015
Guthrie, Stewart Elliott. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion . Oxford University Press, 1995.
Hadaway, C. Kirk vd. “What the Polls Don’t Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance”. American Sociological Review 58/6 (1993), 741-752. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095948
Henrich, Joseph. “The Evolution of Costly Displays, Cooperation and Religion: Credibility Enhancing Displays and Their Implications for Cultural Evolution”. Evolution and Human Behavior 30/4 (01 Temmuz 2009), 244-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.03.005
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James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience\u202f: A Study In Human Nature . New York: Penguin Books, 1902.
Jong, Jonathan. “On Faith and the Fear of Fatality: A Review of Recent Research on Deities and Death”. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 1/2 (20 Mart 2014), 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.v1i2.193
Kanazawa, Satoshi. “Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent”. Social Psychology Quarterly 73/1 (01 Mart 2010), 33-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272510361602
Kay, Aaron C. vd. “God and the Government: Testing a Compensatory Control Mechanism for the Support of External Systems”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95/1 (Temmuz 2008), 18-35. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.18
Kelemen, Deborah. “Are Children ‘Intuitive Theists ’?: Reasoning About Purpose and Design in Nature”. Psychological Science 15/5 (01 Mayıs 2004), 295-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00672.x
Lanman, Jonathan A. - Buhrmester, Michael D. “Religious actions speak louder than words: exposure to credibility-enhancing displays predicts theism”. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7/1 (02 Ocak 2017), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2015.1117011
Lynn, Richard John vd. “Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations”. Intelligence 37 (2009), 11-15.
Mayr, Ernst. “Cause and Effect in Biology”. Science 134/3489 (1961), 1501-1506. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1707986
Norenzayan, Ara vd. “Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief in a Personal God”. PloS One 7/5 (2012), e36880. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036880
Norenzayan, Ara vd. “The cultural evolution of prosocial religions”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016), e1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14001356
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Zuckerman, Miron vd. “The Relation between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations”. Personality and Social Psychology Review: An Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc 17/4 (Kasım 2013), 325-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868313497266
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Tanrı İnancı: İnsanlar Neden İnanır Neden İnanmaz?
Year 2022,
Volume: 22 Issue: 2, 1009 - 1020, 30.12.2022
Bir tanrıya veya tanrılara duyulan inanç, milyarlarca insan yaşamının temel bir bileşeni ve psikolojinin sürekli ilgilendiği bir konudur. Bununla birlikte son beş yıl içinde yapılan araştırmalar, Tanrı inancının hem uzak hem de yakın nedenleri hakkında yeni bir anlayış ortaya koyacak seviyeye ulaşmıştır. Bir özellik üzerindeki evrimsel etkiler olarak tanımlanan uzak nedenler, Tanrı inancının uyum değerine ve insanlarda bu inanca yönelik bir eğilim olmasının nedenlerine ışık tutar. Bir özelliğin ifadesi üzerindeki doğrudan etkiler olarak tanımlanan yakın nedenler ise inançtaki çeşitliliği ve değişiklikleri açıklar. Çalışmada, bu araştırmayı ele alıyor ve Tanrı inancının tam olarak anlaşılmasının önündeki engelleri tartışıyoruz.
Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding. Origins of Religiousness: The Role of Natural Disasters . SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, 18 Şubat 2013. Social Science Research Network, papers.ssrn.com. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2221859
Bluemke, Matthias vd. “Measuring Cross-Cultural Supernatural Beliefs with Self- and Peer-Reports”. PLOS ONE 11/10 (19 Ekim 2016), e0164291. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164291
Botero, Carlos A. vd. “The Ecology of Religious Beliefs”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111/47 (25 Kasım 2014), 16784. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408701111
Bréchon, Pierre. “Cross-National Comparisons of Individual Religiosity”. The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion . ed. J. A. Beckford. 463-489. London: SAGE, 2007.
Brenner, Philip S. “Identity Importance and the Overreporting of Religious Service Attendance: Multiple Imputation of Religious Attendance Using the American Time Use Study and the General Social Survey”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50/1 (2011), 103-115. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41307052
Cox, Daniel - Jones, Robert P. I Know What You Did Last Sunday: Measuring Social Desirability Bias in Self-Reported Religious Behavior, Belief, and Identity. Washington: Public Religion Research Institute, 2014.
Epley, Nicholas vd. “Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds”. Psychological Science 19/2 (ubat 2008), 114-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02056.x
Forstmann, Matthias - Burgmer, Pascal. “Adults Are Intuitive Mind-Body Dualists”. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General 144/1 (Şubat 2015), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000045
Gervais, Will M. vd. “The Cultural Transmission of Faith Why Innate Intuitions Are Necessary, but Insufficient, to Explain Religious Belief”. Religion 41/3 (01 Eylül 2011), 389-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2011.604510
Gervais, Will M. vd. “Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists”. Nature Human Behaviour 1/8 (07 Ağustos 2017), 0151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0151
Gervais, Will M. - Najle, Maxine B. “How Many Atheists Are There?” Social Psychological and Personality Science 9/1 (01 Ocak 2018), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617707015
Guthrie, Stewart Elliott. Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion . Oxford University Press, 1995.
Hadaway, C. Kirk vd. “What the Polls Don’t Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance”. American Sociological Review 58/6 (1993), 741-752. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095948
Henrich, Joseph. “The Evolution of Costly Displays, Cooperation and Religion: Credibility Enhancing Displays and Their Implications for Cultural Evolution”. Evolution and Human Behavior 30/4 (01 Temmuz 2009), 244-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.03.005
Höllinger, Franz - Eder, Anja. “Functional Equivalence and Validity of Religiousness Indicators in Cross-Cultural Comparative Surveys”. Methodological Innovations 9 (01 Ocak 2016), 2059799115622756. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799115622756
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience\u202f: A Study In Human Nature . New York: Penguin Books, 1902.
Jong, Jonathan. “On Faith and the Fear of Fatality: A Review of Recent Research on Deities and Death”. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 1/2 (20 Mart 2014), 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.v1i2.193
Kanazawa, Satoshi. “Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent”. Social Psychology Quarterly 73/1 (01 Mart 2010), 33-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272510361602
Kay, Aaron C. vd. “God and the Government: Testing a Compensatory Control Mechanism for the Support of External Systems”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95/1 (Temmuz 2008), 18-35. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.18
Kelemen, Deborah. “Are Children ‘Intuitive Theists ’?: Reasoning About Purpose and Design in Nature”. Psychological Science 15/5 (01 Mayıs 2004), 295-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00672.x
Lanman, Jonathan A. - Buhrmester, Michael D. “Religious actions speak louder than words: exposure to credibility-enhancing displays predicts theism”. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7/1 (02 Ocak 2017), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2015.1117011
Lynn, Richard John vd. “Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations”. Intelligence 37 (2009), 11-15.
Mayr, Ernst. “Cause and Effect in Biology”. Science 134/3489 (1961), 1501-1506. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1707986
Norenzayan, Ara vd. “Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief in a Personal God”. PloS One 7/5 (2012), e36880. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036880
Norenzayan, Ara vd. “The cultural evolution of prosocial religions”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016), e1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X14001356
Norris, Pippa - Inglehart, Ronald. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791017
Pennycook, Gordon vd. “Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis”. PloS One 11/4 (2016), e0153039. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153039
Pew Research Center. Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality. Pew Research Center, 13 Mart 2014.
Purzycki, B. G. vd. The biological evolution of religious mind and behavior . ed. null, 2009.
Roes, Frans L - Raymond, Michel. “Belief in moralizing gods”. Evolution and Human Behavior 24/2 (01 Mart 2003), 126-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00134-4
Scott-Phillips, Thomas C. vd. “Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences”. Perspectives on Psychological Science 6/1 (01 Ocak 2011), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610393528
Sedikides, Constantine - Gebauer, Jochen E. “Religiosity as Self-Enhancement: A Meta-Analysis of the Relation between Socially Desirable Responding and Religiosity”. Personality and Social Psychology Review: An Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc 14/1 (Şubat 2010), 17-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868309351002
Sherkat, D. E. “Religious Socialization: Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency”. Handbook of Sociology of Religion . ed. Michele Dillon. 151-163. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Vail, Kenneth E. vd. “Exploring the Existential Function of Religion and Supernatural Agent Beliefs Among Christians, Muslims, Atheists, and Agnostics”. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38/10 (01 Ekim 2012), 1288-1300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212449361
Vromen, Jack. “Ultimate and proximate explanations of strong reciprocity”. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 39/3 (23 Ağustos 2017), 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0151-4
Whitehead, Brenda R. - Bergeman, Cindy S. “Coping with Daily Stress: Differential Role of Spiritual Experience on Daily Positive and Negative Affect”. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 67/4 (Temmuz 2012), 456-459. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbr136
Willard, Aiyana K. - Cingl, Lubomír. “Testing theories of secularization and religious belief in the Czech Republic and Slovakia”. Evolution and Human Behavior 38/5 (01 Eylül 2017), 604-615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.01.002
Yilmaz, Onurcan - Bahçekapili, Hasan G. “Supernatural and secular monitors promote human cooperation only if they remind of punishment”. Evolution and Human Behavior 37/1 (2016), 79-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.09.005
Zuckerman, Miron vd. “The Relation between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations”. Personality and Social Psychology Review: An Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc 17/4 (Kasım 2013), 325-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868313497266
Zuckerman, Phil. “Atheism: Contemporary Numbers and Patterns”. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism . ed. Michael Martin . 47-66. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521842700.004
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