Commentary: Why Do You Believe in God? Relationships between Religious Belief, Analytic Thinking, Mentalizing and Moral Concern.

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski,Adrian D Wojcik

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00607

Abstract

Commentary: Why Do You Believe in God? Relationships between Religious Belief, Analytic Thinking, Mentalizing and Moral Concern.

Highlights

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Jack et al (2016) argue that empathizing and religious beliefs are robustly associated and that this connection cannot be explained by socially desirable responding
The data Jack et al obtained can be re-examined to show that socially desirable responding does mediate the relationship between empathizing and frequency of religious practice

Summary

Introduction

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Jack et al (2016) argue that empathizing and religious beliefs are robustly associated and that this connection cannot be explained by socially desirable responding. The data Jack et al obtained can be re-examined to show that socially desirable responding does mediate the relationship between empathizing and frequency of religious practice.

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