These are mere slogans in need of clarification and refinement, but they express the conviction of many epistemologists that in order to be epistemic an evaluation must focus on some aspects of beliefs and believers and leave other aspects of them out of consideration. For example, typically, what evidence for the truth of p a subject has is treated as a consideration relevant for making an epi...

As individuals are given wider latitude to openly practice and express their faith at work, it is likely that believers will spend least part of working life actively thinking about God. Yet, despite the central role belief in God plays people’s lives, research has little attention impact on task performance. The current investigates relationship between monotheistic believers’ creativity. We c...

This paper discusses the clothing of Serbian Orthodox Church believers at end twentieth and beginning twenty-first century. The main goal was to determine whether there is a desirable/ideal model for SOC believers, liturgy as well type degree deviation from it in daily practice believers. based on ethnographic material collected during last five years churches monasteries throughout Serbia usin...

In this paper I consider how individuals allocate their time between church attendance (and other religious activities) and secular leisure activities. Moreover individuals use a cognitive style, which is either intuitive-believing or reflective-analytical. I assume that the full benefit from religious activities is achieved by intuitive believers. The model predicts that, ceteris paribus, weal...

The present investigation tested the hypothesis that, as an aspect of schizotypal thinking, the formation of paranormal beliefs was related to spreading activation characteristics within semantic networks. From a larger student population (n = 117) prescreened for paranormal belief, 12 strong believers and 12 strong disbelievers (all women) were invited for a lateralized semantic priming task w...

Past research has found a robust effect of prejudice against atheists in largely Christian-dominated (belief-oriented) samples. We propose that religious centrality of beliefs vs. practices influences attitudes toward atheists, such that religious groups emphasizing beliefs perceive non-believers more negatively than believers, while groups emphasizing practices perceive non-practicing individu...

Subjects were asked to carry out a clairvoyance task as a study of the effect of belief and its modulation on psi performance. The task was to guess hidden symbols on Zener cards. Subjects stated whether they believed in the existence of psi, after which the belief was either supported or contradicted by written and verbal arguments. After this, the subjects carried out the clairvoyance task. A...

In Experiment 1, participants took part in a fake seance. An actor suggested that a table was levitating when, in fact, it remained stationary. After the seance, approximately one third of participants incorrectly reported that the table had moved. Results also showed a significant relationship between the reported movement of the table and belief in the paranormal, with a greater percentage of...