Thinking of God Moves Attention

Thinking about the future moves attention to the right.

Previous studies have shown that past and future temporal concepts are spatially represented (past being located to the left and future to the right in a mental time line). This study aims at further investigating the nature of this space-time conceptual metaphor, by testing whether the temporal reference of words orient spatial attention or rather prime a congruent left/right response. A modif...

God: Do I have your attention?

Religion is commonly defined as a set of rules, developed as part of a culture. Here we provide evidence that practice in following these rules systematically changes the way people attend to visual stimuli, as indicated by the individual sizes of the global precedence effect (better performance to global than to local features). We show that this effect is significantly reduced in Calvinism, a...

god in yung's thinking

from the ancient times, the question of god’s concept has been an ultimate concern for humankind and in recent times most of the thinkers try to answer in it from different aspects. the present article is going to consider this problem from yung's psychoanalytical point of view. following william james and sigmund freud generally, carl gustav yung has had many studies concerning psychology...

Obama cares about visuo-spatial attention: perception of political figures moves attention and determines gaze direction.

Processing an abstract concept such as political ideology by itself is difficult but becomes easier when a background situation contextualizes it. Political ideology within American politics, for example, is commonly processed using space metaphorically, i.e., the political "left" and "right" (referring to Democrat and Republican views, respectively), presumably to provide a common metric to wh...

Novice Teachers’ Attention to Student Thinking