Feelings of Presence under "God Helmet" : How Uncertainty and Culture Shape religious experience?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00137154" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00137154 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00138145

Result on the web

<a href="https://iacesr.com/conferences/" target="_blank" >https://iacesr.com/conferences/</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Feelings of Presence under "God Helmet" : How Uncertainty and Culture Shape religious experience?

Original language description

How do cultural learning and uncertainty influence our experience, and to what extent are we prone to follow authoritative claims about what we should feel? In recent decades, neurologists experimented with the “God helmet”, i.e., a device supposedly inducing religious experiences through a weak electromagnetic field. However, later replications showed that the helmet works even as a sham model. Thus, in the experimental study, we plan to use the authoritative context of “neuroenchantment” to raise our participants’ expectations about having a religious experience in the lab. Within the predictive processing framework, we will prime participants to feel the presence of a spiritual entity under a supposedly working God helmet. Using a within-subject design and participant sample with varying degrees of religious training, we will manipulate their uncertainty via sensory deprivation and observe these factors’ influence on their ability to achieve the suggested feeling of presence. In the talk, I will present our preregistered experimental design and discuss possible implications of future results towards the understanding of how institutional authority, previous cultural learning, and uncertainty are influencing the nature of subjectively felt experiences and how such influences may contribute to changes in individual attitudes in the context of broader society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů