PSY 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Veganism, Stereotype, Puritans
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Genetics and belief systems: identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins are more similar than brothers/sisters are more similar than a stranger in their religious beliefs. This is true for twins who grow up separate. Why america is strongly religious but also technologically advanced: how the country started (the puritans foundation of the country) Wanted to guarantee freedom of religion and separation of church and state. (novel idea at the time) This caused america to be attractive to people who had strong religious belief that differed from their country that they couldn"t practice. This also enabled people to start new religions. They were inspired by the enlightenment period: original roots of america and the puritans. Aliens: if we heard from an outside source like aliens it would be indistinguishable from god. Conspiracy theories: 9/11 conspiracies, we do need to question things. Heuristics and biases of human reasoning: 1. The ease from which information comes to us to explain things.
