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Has anyone heard of this study?
Question by Bebe: Has anyone heard of this study?
where they showed people images, some were random shapes, others were silhouette human figures or faces. They found that theists were more likely to “notice” images of people in the random shapes while atheists were more likely to say human figures were random shapes.
Does anyone know where I can find this study?
I remember reading it in a book. a recent book, since 2000.. that’s all I remember. I’d guess the book was about beliefs, maybe religious beliefs.
Teapotistic — I did read “Why People Believe Strange Things”.. Do you think it’s in there?
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Answer by Fireball
no…reading REVelation is better
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any physiologists office…in other words. any nut ward
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LikeDislikeSounds like it had absolutely no relevance to atheists or theists at all
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LikeDislikeSearch for articles and videos from Michael Shermer of Skeptics Magazine.
His book “Why People Believe Weird Things” is a great book, too.
Theists have more tendencies to see their theistic figures somewhere.
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Yes, I think he mentioned this brain phenomenon in the book. He talks about this in his public speeches excerpting from this book, too.
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LikeDislikeI haven’t heard of this before, but it may have something to do with those inkblot tests that are used in psychology. Sorry I can’t offer much else.
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LikeDislikeThat was a study about brain hemispheres, not about religion.
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LikeDislikeI spilled my milk. It looks like jesus.
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LikeDislikeI tried to find such a study through various scholarly portals… no luck. Are you sure this is a real study?
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LikeDislikehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
It’s the Rorshach test — used in psychologal evaluations. There is a series of inkblots which people look at and are supposed to give the first impression that comes to their mind. There is a supposed minimum number of different responses that a person would give to be within the “normal” range.
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