Content by 2015-2017 Sinai and Synapses Fellows (Page 2)
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.
My Big Fat Vegetarian Wedding
We choose not to eat meat, but would our wedding guests feel uncomfortable with us pushing this choice on them?
Spirits in the Material World
If humans have learned over eons that intercessory prayer doesn’t “work”, why do we keep doing it?
What Does It Mean for Religion If There Is Life on other Planets?
How would our religious perspective change if we discovered life on other planets?
How Do We Know What We Know?
Why are some sources of authority more alluring than others?
Can Americans Learn to Grieve?
How can the workplace and our other social institutions help dispel the myth that everyone is just in it for themselves?
Does Science Need Its Own Rituals?
Does religion offer something special that science doesn’t?
Seeing Religion in Science, and Science in Religion
Religion and science needn’t live in their own echo chambers. Rather, they can coexist in a meaningful way, both informing the other.