Justin Barrett

Fuller Theological Seminary, Graduate School of Psychology, Faculty Member

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University of Wollongong

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Papers by Justin Barrett

Is Religious Belief Natural? The Relevance of Cognitive Science to Faith

Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum

by Emily Burdett and Justin Barrett

Journal of Cognition and …, Jan 1, 2009

Page 1. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156770909X124894 59066345 Journal of Co... more

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The God issue: We are all born believers

New Scientist, 2012

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From theory of mind to divine minds

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011

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Can Religious Belief Be Explained Away? Reasons and Causes of Religious Belief

Do children believe because they're told to by adults? The evidence suggests otherwise

Cognition, evolution, and religion

APA handbook of psychology, religion, and spirituality (Vol 1): Context, theory, and research., 2013

In this chapter we introduce cognitive and evolutionary approaches to the study of religion as re... more

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Child's God

Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development, 2006

Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America

Review of Religious Research, 1996

... Contents Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction xiii 1 The Church in Thetford Forest 1 2... more

Attachment Predicts Adolescent Conversions at Young Life Religious Summer Camps

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

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Validation of the Spiritual Striving Questionnaire in Christian Summer Campers

PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2000

Primed Analytic Thought and Religiosity: The Importance of Individual Characteristics

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2016

Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology

Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2009

Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1998

Concepts of gods, like any other concepts, are informed and constrained by cross-cultural regular... more

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Special Issue: New Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2013

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Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Faith and Philosophy, 2010

Page 1. 38 Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion KELLY JAMES CLARK Reformed... more

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The relative unnaturalness of atheism: On why Geertz and Mark�sson are both right and wrong

Religion, 2010

Commonly scholars in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) have advanced the naturalness of rel... more Commonly scholars in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) have advanced the naturalness of religion thesis. That is, ordinary cognitive resources operating in ordinary human environments typically lead to some kind of belief in supernatural agency and perhaps other religious ideas. Special cultural scaffolding is unnecessary. Supernaturalism falls near a natural anchor point. In contrast, widespread conscious rejection of the supernatural as in atheism appears to require either special cultural conditions that upset ordinary function, cognitive effort, or a good degree of cultural scaffolding to move people away from their maturationally natural anchor-points. Geertz and Markú sson (2009) identify ways to strengthen cognitive approaches to the study of religion and culture, including atheism, but fail to demonstrate that atheism is as natural in a comparable respect as theism.

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Cognitive science, religion, and theology : from human minds to divine minds