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Apr 3, 2023 · Humans use supernatural beliefs as tools for explanation. These explanations are more likely to focus on natural phenomena than social phenomena, according to this quantitative analysis of ...
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Apr 3, 2023 · In fact, nearly all the societies we surveyed had supernatural explanations for natural phenomena such as disease (96%), natural disasters (92%) and drought (90%).
Apr 3, 2023 · Seeing the natural world through a supernatural lens was incredibly prevalent: 96% of societies relied on supernatural explanations for infectious diseases; 92% for food scarcity; and 90% for ...
a supernatural explanation. When a phenomenon was not discussed, it was coded as missing. We omitted missing data when analysing the percent of societies with supernatural explanations of each phenom-
Mar 10, 2022 · In contrast, individuals with the highest levels of religiosity rely on their religious framework to understand the world and, accordingly, are more likely to reject supernatural beliefs that do not align with their religious doctrine (Mencken et al. 2009). 6 People in between these two extremes are most likely to report beliefs in supernatural phenomena. They may believe that science alone ...
May 9, 2023 · However, data for this group was limited. The team considers it highly possible that this society does have such explanations, but these were not documented by the ethnographer. Overall, an overwhelming 96% of the societies had supernatural explanations for disease, and 92% had supernatural explanations for natural causes of food scarcity.
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Phylogenetically controlled t-tests replicated the finding that societies had more forms of natural explanations than social explanations, t(105) = 13.31, p < .001, and that societies were more likely to have at least one supernatural explanation of a natural phenomenon than at least one supernatural explanation of a social phenomenon, t(105) = 6.59, p < .001.
