The need to belong can motivate belief in God. In Study 1, 40 undergraduates read bogus astrophysics articles "proving" God's existence or not offering proof. Participants in the proof-for-God condition reported higher belief in God (compared to control) when they chronically imagined God as accepting but lower belief in God when they imagined God as rejecting. Additionally, in Study 2 (72 unde...

Experimental studies of the cultural evolution of language have focused on how constraints on learning and communication drive emergence of linguistic structure. Yet language is typically transmitted by experts who adjust the input in ways that facilitates learning by novices, e.g. through child-directed speech. Using iterated language learning of binary auditory sequences, we explored how lang...

The automatic induction of scripts (Schank and Abelson, 1977) has been the focus of many recent works. In this paper, we employ a variety of these methods to learn Schank and Abelson’s canonical restaurant script, using a novel dataset of restaurant narratives we have compiled from a website called “Dinners from Hell.” Our models learn narrative chains, script-like structures that we evaluate w...

Introduction. The history of the development spiritual culture Mordovia has an inseparable connection with Russia. article is devoted to consideration historical and cultural aspect in composition iconographic studies Icon Iver Mother God 19th century (Fig. 1, 2) as object restoration, which relevance research. Materials Methods. During research, method was used combination approach. Results. r...

The symbol of the hand appears in early stages human culture as a representation and symbolic resource. Over time, that has taken on different meanings becoming complex intersection sociocultural mediation interaction. In Dormition Mother God icon by Srđan Radojković, stands out among other dominant symbols. What does bear invoke? paper, we point to originally Christian, biblical, New Testament...

1. God exists in the understanding. 2. God might have existed in reality (God is a possible being). 3. If something exists only in the understanding and might have existed in reality, then it might have been greater than it is. 4. Suppose God exists only in the understanding. 5. God might have been greater than he is. 6. God is a being than which a greater is possible. 7. The being than which n...