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  1. Fear the unseen
    supernatural belief and agency detection in virtual reality
    Author: Tratner, Adam E.; McDonald, Melissa M.; Shackelford, Todd K.; Vonk, Jennifer; Zeigler-Hill, Virgil
    Published: [2020]

    Belief in supernatural agents is ubiquitous, as evidenced by its prevalence in religion, folklore, and cultural practices. It is theorized that, given recurrent ancestral risks of predation and frequent contact with other dangerous agents, mechanisms... more

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    Belief in supernatural agents is ubiquitous, as evidenced by its prevalence in religion, folklore, and cultural practices. It is theorized that, given recurrent ancestral risks of predation and frequent contact with other dangerous agents, mechanisms for agency detection may have evolved and play an important role in facilitating belief in supernatural agents. Thus, agency detection and belief in supernatural agents may be correlated in modern populations. College students (N = 107) completed a survey assessing belief in various supernatural phenomena, and participated in a virtual reality (VR) task where they indicated the perceived presence of agents (agency detection). Results indicated that the VR task successfully induced false agency detection such that the majority of participants perceived the presence of an agent at least once where no agent was present. Women reported greater overall supernatural belief than men. False agency detection was not related to belief in supernatural agents, and was instead related to belief in Feng Shui. These findings were unanticipated, and inconsistent with the study’s main hypothesis. Discussion emphasizes theoretical and methodological considerations for future research on agency detection and supernatural belief.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Religion, brain & behavior; London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011; 10(2020), 2, Seite 118-131; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: agency detection; evolution; evolutionary psychology; supernatural agents; supernatural belief; virtual reality
  2. Agency detection in predictive minds
    a virtual reality study
    Author: Andersen, Marc; Schjødt, Uffe; Müller, Sebastian; Pfeiffer, Thies
    Published: [2019]

    Since its inception, explaining the cognitive foundations governing sensory experiences of supernatural agents has been a central topic in the cognitive science of religion. Following recent developments in perceptual psychology, this pre-registered... more

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    Since its inception, explaining the cognitive foundations governing sensory experiences of supernatural agents has been a central topic in the cognitive science of religion. Following recent developments in perceptual psychology, this pre-registered study examines the effects of expectations and sensory reliability on agency detection. Participants were instructed to detect beings in a virtual forest. Results reveal that participants expecting a high probability of encountering an agent in the forest are much more likely to make false detections than participants expecting a low probability of such encounters. Furthermore, low sensory reliability increases the false detection rate compared to high sensory reliability, but this effect is much smaller than the effect of expectations. While previous accounts of agency detection have speculated that false detections of agents may give rise to or strengthen religious beliefs, our results suggest that the reverse direction of causality may also be true. Religious teachings may first produce expectations in believers, which in turn elicit false detections of agents. These experiences may subsequently work to confirm the teachings and narratives upon which the values of a given culture are built.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Religion, brain & behavior; London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011; 9(2019), 1, Seite 52-64; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Agency Detection; HADD; cognitive science of religion; perception; predictive processing; religious teachings; virtual reality
  3. Stanislaw Lem
    Leben in der Zukunft
    Author: Gall, Alfred
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  wbg Theiss, Darmstadt

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  4. Cyborgs in Latin America
    Author: Brown, J. Andrew
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan ; USA ; New York

    Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. The book takes a literary and cultural studies approach in examining narrative, film... more

     

    Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. The book takes a literary and cultural studies approach in examining narrative, film and advertising campaigns from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay by such artists as Ricardo Piglia, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Carmen Boullosa and Alberto Fuguet among others. Using and criticizing theoretical models developed by Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, the book will appeal to specialists and students of Latin American Studies; Posthuman Theory; and Literature, Science and Technology Studies.

     
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  5. Metaphorik der Digitalität: Über den Nicht-Erklärungswert etablierter Begrifflichkeiten zur Beschreibung der Online- Kommunikation
    Author: Thiery, Heinz
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  DEU ; Dudenhofen

    Viele der zur Darstellung medieninduzierter Veränderungen und Unterschiede genutzten Begrifflichkeiten und Ausdrücke produzieren Leerstellen und Wortnebel, weil deren kontextspezifische Bedeutung nicht oder nur unzureichend expliziert wird. Sie... more

     

    Viele der zur Darstellung medieninduzierter Veränderungen und Unterschiede genutzten Begrifflichkeiten und Ausdrücke produzieren Leerstellen und Wortnebel, weil deren kontextspezifische Bedeutung nicht oder nur unzureichend expliziert wird. Sie halten weder einer sprachwissenschaftlichen noch einer medienphilosophischen Analyse stand. Anhand der drei prominenten Oppositionen 'offline/online, analog/digital und real/virtuell' zeigt der Vortrag, warum aus Sicht des Referenten die am häufigsten genutzten Ausdrücke den Gegenstand 'Online-Beratung' bzw. 'Online-Kommunikation' nicht nur nicht angemessen beschreiben, sondern in einigen Fällen Mystifizierungen produziere. ; Many terms and expressions used to describe media-induced changes and differences produce vagueness and word fog due to insufficient explanation of context-specific meaning and readers often remain confused. Under these conditions those terms do not stand up to linguistic or media philosophical analysis. On the basis of the three most common oppositions (offline/online, analog/digital, real/virtual), the lecture tries to show, why these expressions do not adequately describe the subject 'online counselling' or 'online communication', and - furthermore - disseminate mystifications about the subject.

     
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  6. Transformations – Signs and their Objects in Transition: 16th International Congress of the German Semiotics Society 2021; September 28 to October 2, 2021
    Author: Fricke, Ellen; Meiler, Matthias
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Chemnitz

    This volume contributes to the understanding of the fundamental, manifold, and ever-changing sign processes that underlie our access to the world. It contains the abstracts of the contributions to the 16th International Congress of the German Society... more

     

    This volume contributes to the understanding of the fundamental, manifold, and ever-changing sign processes that underlie our access to the world. It contains the abstracts of the contributions to the 16th International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics “Transformations – Signs and their Objects in Transition”, which met digitally in Chemnitz from 28 September to 2 October 2021.:Geleitwort / Welcome Address PROGRAMM Programmübersicht Keynotes Panelübersicht Liste aller Vorträge RAHMEN­PROGRAMM Verleihung des DGS-­Nachwuchsförderpreises Dokumentarfilm Reading Circus Posterschau mit studentischen Forschungsprojekten Digitale Exkursion Chemnitz – Leben mit dem Vulkan Podium Transformationen und Infrastrukturen der Wissenschafts­kommunikation Diskussionsforen & Agora Semiotica, quo vadis? Transdisziplinärer Workshop Reading Circus Kolloquium Haus der Zeichen Gather.town PANELS ARCHÄOLOGIE Repräsentationen und Interpretationen dynamischer Prozesse und Aktionen in vormodernen Gesellschaften ARCHITEKTUR Transformationen in Architektur und Städtebau BILD Bilder als Agenten kultureller Transformationsprozesse DESIGN Rückkehr des Realen. Design und Designtheorie im Wandel DIGITAL HUMANITIES Digitale Transformation der Geisteswissenschaften? Theoretische und methodologische Provokationen durch die Digital Humanities KÖRPER Digitale Transformation und Virtualisierung von Körperzeichen KULTURWISSENSCHAFT Images as Agents of Cultural Transformation LITERATUR & JUGEND - UND SUBKULTUREN Mediale Transformationen und/als Innovation narrativer Formate: Aneignung, Literacy, Protest MEDIEN Mediale und semiotische Transformationsprozesse in der Wissenschaftspraxis MODE Religion, Politik und Mode – Zirkulation der Zeichen TANZ, THEATER UND ZIRKUS Zur (Ir)relevanz der Semiotik. Transformationen in den performativen Künsten UMWELT - UND KARTO-/ATLASSEMIOTIK Von der Kartosemiotik zur Atlassemiotik ZEICHENPHILOSOPHIE Das Ende der Referenz? Wahrheitsansprüche im „postfaktischen Zeitalter“ ASSOZIIERTES PANEL DES ...

     
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  7. At the threshold into new worlds: Virtual reality game worlds beyond narratives
    Author: Matuszkiewicz, Kai; Weidle, Franziska
    Published: 2019