Prefrontal brain lesions reveal magical ideation arises from enhanced religious experiences.
Peace and conflict : journal of peace psychology : the journal of the Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological Association May 1, 2018 Wanting Zhong, Frank Krüeger, Marc Wilson et al.
Magical ideation refers to beliefs about causality that lack empirical bases. Few studies have investigated the neural correlates of magical thinking and religious beliefs. Here, we investigate the association between magical ideation and religious experience in a sample of Vietnam veterans who sustained penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) and matched healthy controls (HCs). Scores on the...