University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Student, Psychology
Queen's University Belfast, Institute of cognition and culture
School of History and Anthropology
Thesis Title: Religious Affiliation as an Essentialized Social Kind
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Jesse Preston
Jesse Bering |
About
My research lies at the intersection of religious and social cognition. Specifically, I am interested in reasoning about religious affiliation as a social kind, non-agentic religious concepts, and how our cognitive biases lead to religious intuitions.
I am also interested in folk morality, especially whether moral reasoning relies on categories of actions beyond the obligatory and the forbidden. Questions from this line of research include: 1) what these categories might be (e.g., supererogration), 2) how do these categories relate to moral conflict, and 3) what individual differences exist in the use of these categories.
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| IM: | Skype: ecsalomon |
