Publication details
Revisiting feeling of threat and agency detection : Towards an OSR preregistered study
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | What kind of neurocognitive mechanism underlies agency detection, and how can it be related to the perception of supernatural beings? In the research project preregistered under the Open Science of Religion framework, we designed an experimental study testing whether the feeling of threat will increase the number of illusory agency detections in a sensorially unreliable virtual reality environment. Whereas no influence of the feeling of threat on agency detection would be in line with the predictive processing neurocognitive approach, positive results would indicate that some form of specialized innate cognitive bias – inspired by older, modular theories of agency detection – is worthy of further consideration. In the talk, we will focus on our experiences with writing a Registered Report and the process of setting up the study, followed by a presentation of preliminary data analysis. |
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