Given the prevalence of supernatural beliefs in United States, some people may believe that God or devil influenced to create receive COVID-19 vaccines. In an Internet sample 3196 U.S. adults (with many preregistered hypotheses), divine vaccine attributions were more common than demonic attributions. Demonic linked with anti-vaccination attitudes and lower odds vaccination, whereas showed oppos...

In studies of ancient Greek divination, oracles are often claimed to pronounce ambiguous but true statements within an intricately ordered cosmos. There exist, however, several problematic exceptions. Book 2 the Iliad , Zeus deliberately deceives Agamemnon through a prophetic dream; Hesiod’s Muses speak truths or lies depending on their mood; and Apollo’s utterances can harm as easily help. The...

This article offers a new interpretation of the wave which, in finale Euripides’ Iphigenia Taurica , prevents Greek ship from leaving Taurian land, thus making it necessary for goddess Athena to intervene. My contention is that predictable consequence sacrilege which Greeks are committing by stealing Artemis’ cult statue temple. Therefore, we can detect IT same religious offence–punishment–comp...

The article is a study of the late scholastic concept natural theology based on works Fr. Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations (1597) and De Deo Uno et Trino (1607), as well analysis treatise “divine knowledge” demonstration its significance in structure Suárez’s theology. First, explicates highest most noble part metaphysical science, since Suárez differs both from supernatural or revelation theo...

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 different operationalizations of mentalizing. The relative importance of mentalizing for endorsi...

In this chapter we examine variation in the contents of supernatural minds across cultures and the social correlates of this variation. We first provide a sketch of how humans are capable of representing supernatural minds and emphasize the significance of the types of knowledge attributed to supernatural agents. We then argue that the contents of supernatural minds as represented cross-cultura...

Below I use research in theoretical biology to shed light on the nature and function of supernatural cognition, and suggest some promising new paths of psychological inquiry these new understandings open. By supernatural cognition I mean beliefs, emotions, and practices relative to supernatural beings and powers like Yahweh, The Amida Buddha, Shiva, Jesus Christ, Zeus, grace, mana, soul, num, a...