Even self-professed believers intuit God as mainly monitoring negative moral acts
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- Priming thoughts of God makes believers favor their own religious group (similarity 0.86)
- Mentalizing enables believers to interact with and be policed by gods (similarity 0.83)
- The Church’s moral language structured who counted as monstrous others (similarity 0.81)
- Costly displays distinguish sincere believers from fakers (similarity 0.81)
- Interests crystallize into perceived moral commitments through psychological supervenience. (similarity 0.80)
- Faith in God and faith in government substitute for each other (similarity 0.80)
- Prosocial religious cohesion inherently requires excluding nonbelievers from trust (similarity 0.79)
- Everyone is an intuitive theist even when self-reflectively atheist. (similarity 0.79)
- Religious belief stems from both intuitive cognition and cultural transmission mechanisms. (similarity 0.79)
- Group expansion drives religion toward moral, demanding, interventionist gods (similarity 0.79)
- Supernatural beliefs that mildly violate intuitions spread better than others (similarity 0.78)
- Moral characters of trustworthiness can make people trust even against reason. (similarity 0.78)