Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion

JCSR is the official journal of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR). Tweets posted by @herebehumans.

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A new issues of @JCSR_Journal is out! Vol. 5 No. 2: The Nordic Issue, guest edited by Dr Ingela Visuri.

Read about variation in gods’ concerns, conceptions of illness, prophetic relics, biases against atheists & religious ppl, memory specificity & more:

https://t.co/F02TddPdR0

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@ReligBrainBehav This is great! Welcome to Twitter :>

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@The_IACSR Of interest to IACSR members:

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**Announcement**

The Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion will now be accepting short 'filedrawer' reports. Meaning: unpublished findings, nullfindings, research designs that did not work out as expected, research projects that were not completed to publication.

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More info: To ensure credibility, the peer review process for these reports will follow JCSR protocols, but would also include an evaluation of whether all details are described in the report, with suggestions for future improvements.

https://t.co/KUvj73zOdv

[Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion @JCSR_Journal]

**Announcement**

The Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion will now be accepting short 'filedrawer' reports. Meaning: unpublished findings, nullfindings, research designs that did not work out as expected, research projects that were not completed to publication.

Pls RT

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More info: The reports should describe the studies conducted, and/or online available complete study designs, and should include a table of summary statistics, supplemented by links to preregistration materials and/or publicly available data. 2,500 words

https://t.co/KUvj73zOdv

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@LandonSchnabel Hey! We - the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion - are really interested in good papers on gender and religion/religiosity! If you have one, please consider submitting. :) We had a call out for a special issue on Gender & Religion a little while back, but few takers..

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Finally, she suggests that the parasocial (fiction-based) relations that autistic individuals have are beneficial and provide social practice, and for some, these support supernatural beliefs as well.

Excellent work! Read it here:
https://t.co/qzbF2c4hQR

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🌟@JCSR_Journal issue 5.1 on imagination & religion highlight🌟

Dr Ingela Visuri’s article argues for a separation between interpersonal & intrapersonal imagination in autism, and for imaginary realms as optimal autistic spaces for social simulations.

https://t.co/qzbF2c4hQR

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She suggests that imagination is *not* impaired in autistic individuals when 1. they are allowed to fantasize on their own terms, and 2. when distinguishing between intrapersonal and interpersonal imagination skills.

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🌟@JCSR_Journal issue 5.1 on imagination & religion highlight🌟

@mari__ovsepyan's philosophy of cogsci article: a biocultural theory of religion, w/ social imaginaries (collective production of sense) bridging cognitive & affective aspects of rel & imag

https://t.co/r5Eprl4bJA

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Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion issue 5.1 has just been published online! 🤩 It is a special issue on Imagination and Religion, edited by Valerie van Mulukom (@herebehumans). You can find it here:

https://t.co/rYF37Gm3rc

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