Supernatural monitoring and ideomotor theories make opposite predictions about divine temperament

Evidence

The critical question, then, is, does the notion of a kind, forgiving, God make people kind, forgiving, honest, and cooperative, as ideomotor explanations would suggest? Or is a wrathful, punishing God a more effective deterrent of bad behavior, as a supernatural monitoring account would predict? — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 166

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpening the contrast between two competing mechanisms (ideomotor suggestion vs. supernatural monitoring) as competing testable hypotheses about what God-belief does to behavior.
• XREF: connects to: Supernatural monitoring causally precedes ideomotor associations, not the reverse.; Supernatural monitoring caused the God-prosociality association, not the reverse — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 175; Supernatural punishment explains religion’s prosocial effects better than ideomotor priming (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Supernatural monitoring causally precedes ideomotor associations, not the reverse.; Supernatural monitoring caused the God-prosociality association, not the reverse — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 175; Supernatural punishment explains religion’s prosocial effects better than ideomotor priming (+1 more)