• Is There a Biological Basis for Belief? A Follow Up🔍
• The biochemistry of belief🔍
• Evidence of biological basis for religion in human evolution🔍
• The perceived stability and biological basis of religious beliefs ...🔍
• The Biological Basis of Belief🔍
• Belief formation – A driving force for brain evolution🔍
• The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton🔍
• The Biology of Resilient Beliefs🔍

Is There a Biological Basis for Belief? A Follow Up

I argued that recent scientific advances suggest there very well may be a genetic basis for spiritual beliefs.

The biochemistry of belief - PMC - PubMed Central

Does the establishment of these beliefs depend on proof demonstrations? The proofs might be the perceptions, which we can directly see or having scientific ...

Evidence of biological basis for religion in human evolution

An Auburn University researcher teamed up with the National Institutes of Health to study how brain networks shape an individual's religious belief.

The perceived stability and biological basis of religious beliefs ...

Psychologists have focused on studying psychological essentialism (laypeople's judgments of the extent to which particular groups and characteristics have ...

The Biological Basis of Belief - AIP.ORG

The Biological Basis of Belief ... Are humans designed to believe? Or is it an unintended by-product of our ballooning brains? ... (Inside Science) ...

Belief formation – A driving force for brain evolution - ScienceDirect

The evolution of special types of higher cognitive abilities, namely believing processes is probably highly influential on brain evolution. Neural processes, ...

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, PhD | by Jackie Ann - Medium

This new field of science is called epigenetics. Because our thoughts/beliefs are the primary component of our personal environment, it is our ...

The Biology of Resilient Beliefs - Pepsic

The paper argues that the study of belief as a modern scientific discipline will require consideration of the evolutionary context through which the neural ...

The neural basis of belief updating and rational decision making

We investigated these deviations through measurements of electrocortical activity in the human brain during incentivized probability-updating tasks and found ...

The Biology of Belief | TIME

Science and religion argue all the time, but they increasingly agree on one thing: a little spirituality may be very good for your health.

READING THE MINDS OF THE DEAD: AFTERLIFE BELIEFS MAY ...

They may in fact have a biological basis — arising from the human brain's unique ability to comprehend the mental states of other people. In an ...

The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes - Nature

These genetic factors may have been favored during human evolution because spirituality has some positive effect on the individual's ability to reproduce. Hamer ...

What Brain Science Tells Us About Religious Belief

Here is that amygdala, which tends to light up whenever something of motivational importance happens to us. The hippocampus, which is right ...

Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief - PNAS

Besides these components, any belief system relies on a body of semantic and event knowledge. One source of semantic knowledge for religious belief is doctrine, ...

A reason to believe - American Psychological Association

Neural underpinnings. Neuroscience research supports the idea that the brain is primed to believe, says Jordan Grafman, PhD, director of the ...

Does belief in free will influence biological motion perception?

Specifically, participants with higher beliefs in determinism were more inclined to report that there was biological motion. A follow-up ...

The Believing Brain: Evolution, Neuroscience, and the Spiritual Instinct

This program is part of the BIG IDEAS SERIES, made possible with support from the JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION. ... FOLLOW us on Twitter: / ...

The Intersection of Science and Religion - National Academies

Their discovery confirmed the prediction made on the basis of evolutionary theory. ... the universe and for the biological diversity of life on Earth. But ...

Newberg | IDENTITY AND THE BRAIN: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF ...

... following should view itself as having an exclusive on ... the individual and the system of beliefs that make up at that individual.

Belief traps: Tackling the inertia of harmful beliefs - PNAS

Yet overly rigid beliefs are the basis of societal problems including prejudices, psychiatric disorders, and conspiracy theories. Recent ...