Prayer and Perceptual (and Other) Experiences.
Cognitive Science December 1, 2024 Eleanor Schille-Hudson, Kara Weisman, Tanya M Luhrmann 11 citations
Prayer, a repeated practice of paying attention to one's inner mental world, is a core behavior across many faiths and traditions, understudied by cognitive scientists. Previous research suggests that humans pray because prayer changes the way they feel or how they think. This paper makes a novel argument: that prayer changes what they feel that they perceive. Those who pray, we find, are more...