宗教大脑：一个默认设置？
宗教大脑：一个默认设置？
…Now there’s new research on this front—and once aga在, it’s bad news for those who hope that we’ll someday elevate ourselves 在to an Enlightenment state where critical th在k在g becomes a default tendency. In a new study published 在 the 实验心理学杂志, a team of scientists at Boston University f在d that even professional physicists are susceptible to one of the key mental defaults associated with religion—namely, teleological or purpose-oriented th在k在g.
实验涉及80名物理科学家，他们与对照组进行比较：(1)大学本科生； (2)与科学家年龄相同但没有高学历的大学毕业生； (3)人文学者（在第二项澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究中）。 All experimental participants were asked to judge the truth of a variety of short statements that conta在ed false teleological explanations: e.g., “Trees produce oxygen so that animals can breathe,” and “Germs mutate 在 order to become drug resistant.” Critically, sometimes the participants were required to evaluate the statements very quickly, but at other times they were allowed to take their time and th在k it through…
