Losing the Big Picture: How Religion May Control Visual Attention Export

@article{citeulike:3507881, abstract = {Despite the abundance of evidence that human perception is penetrated by beliefs and expectations, scientific research so far has entirely neglected the possible impact of religious background on attention. Here we show that Dutch Calvinists and atheists, brought up in the same country and culture and controlled for race, intelligence, sex, and age, differ with respect to the way they attend to and process the global and local features of complex visual stimuli: Calvinists attend less to global aspects of perceived events, which fits with the idea that people's attentional processing style reflects possible biases rewarded by their religious belief system.}, author = {Colzato, Lorenza S. and van den Wildenberg, Wery P. M. and Hommel, Bernhard}, citeulike-article-id = {3507881}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003679}, day = {12}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0003679}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, keywords = {atheism, belief, cognitive\_science, psychology, religion, research, science}, month = {November}, number = {11}, pages = {e3679+}, posted-at = {2009-10-01 04:15:35}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, title = {Losing the Big Picture: How Religion May Control Visual Attention}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003679}, volume = {3}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3507881 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3507881 N2 - Despite the abundance of evidence that human perception is penetrated by beliefs and expectations, scientific research so far has entirely neglected the possible impact of religious background on attention. Here we show that Dutch Calvinists and atheists, brought up in the same country and culture and controlled for race, intelligence, sex, and age, differ with respect to the way they attend to and process the global and local features of complex visual stimuli: Calvinists attend less to global aspects of perceived events, which fits with the idea that people's attentional processing style reflects possible biases rewarded by their religious belief system. IS - 11 JF - PLoS ONE TI - Losing the Big Picture: How Religion May Control Visual Attention PB - Public Library of Science VL - 3 SP - e3679 KW - atheism KW - belief KW - cognitive_science KW - psychology KW - religion KW - research KW - science AU - Colzato, Lorenza AU - van den Wildenberg, Wery AU - Hommel, Bernhard PY - 2008/11/12/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003679 ER -