Content by 2013-2015 Sinai and Synapses Fellows (Page 2)
Can Liturgy Be Empirically Tested?
What happens in our bodies and in our brains when we join together in a communal liturgy, where people sing or dance or celebrate together?
Science and Religion: Playing in the Sandbox
How does play help us understand the rules of the game for both science and religion? How can they help us better understand and create more joy in the work that we do?
Is Morality About Cooperation?
Morality-as-cooperation is pushing researchers in moral psychology to think more rigorously about the evolutionary background and specific processes that might give rise to moral sentiments.
Moon Mission
Science says space debris formed the Moon. Others say it was God. They’re both right.
Religion, Belief and Social Connections – An Interview with Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood
Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood discuss their new research about religion, cognitive styles, and intuition.
The WEIRDness of Studying Thinking – Religion, Belief and Social Connections, Part 4
Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood discuss their new research about religion, cognitive styles, and intuition.
Can You Be Both Religious and Analytical? – Religion, Belief and Social Connections, Part 3
Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood discuss their new research about religion, cognitive styles, and intuition.
When To Be Intuitive, When To Be Analytical – Religion, Belief and Social Connections, Part 2
Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood discuss their new research about religion, cognitive styles, and intuition.
Religion is Intuitive – Religion, Belief and Social Connections, Part 1
Jonathan Morgan and Connor Wood discuss their new research about religion, cognitive styles, and intuition.
Does Marching to the Same Rhythm Always Unite Us?
Sinai and Synapses Fellowship alum Connor Wood discusses new research that complicates the idea that synchrony in action always leads to synchrony in thought and spirit.
Breaking Our Patterns: Behavioral Economics and T’shuvah
Out of ease, comfort, or inertia, our lives are made up largely of patterns. How do we re-examine them so we can let our minds guide our hearts?
Spirits in the Material World
If humans have learned over eons that intercessory prayer doesn’t “work”, why do we keep doing it?