Does holding strong beliefs change the way your mind works?

Our work focuses on studying cognitive and evolutionary aspects of holding strong beliefs, either based on organised religion or other spiritual teachings - and we are looking for participants to take part in her on-line study.

Our most recent work is interested in finding out more about the cognitive mechanisms involved in belonging to a religious group and its relation to art appreciation.

We are looking for both those who do and do not consider themselves to hold strong religious beliefs.

You may have completed the survey before, so it is important that you participate only once. If you have not previously taken part, it will only take about 20-30 minutes of your time.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/art-faith

Contact the researchers directly if you would like more information. 
Dr Clare Cunningham (email) c.cunningham@abertay.ac.uk
Gislene Rodriguez (email) 0803341@live.abertay.ac.uk.

Please feel free to leave any thought or comment you may have regarding to our study! 

Participate in our research

The focus of our research is human psychology, 

therefore we need human participants!

We invite you to further explore one of our 

research studies that is being conducted 

and to consider taking  part in it. 

Our interests are focused on the evolutionary 

progression of cognitive abilities, particularly the evolution of 

human-specific cognitive capacities such as religion, creativity and 

language and their relation to sociality and mate-choice.

Our current work centres on the question of whether  
belief systems are related to approaches to life stress.

Thanks for your interest in our project. We reached a desirable number 
of participants for this particular study. 

However, we invite you to take part in our new survey focusing in art 
appreciation and faith. 

Please see the post above for more details.

Contact the researchers directly if you would like more information. 
Dr Clare Cunningham (email) c.cunningham@abertay.ac.uk
Gislene Rodriguez (email) 0803341@live.abertay.ac.uk.

Please feel free to leave any thought or comment you may have regarding to our study!