Jonathan Morgan
Boston University
12 Papers
23 Citations
Jonathan Morgan is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Coping (psychology) & Cognitive science of religion. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of Jonathan Morgan include Harvard University.
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Papers
Finding Spirits in Spirituality: What are We Measuring in Spirituality and Health Research?
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that listening to participants’ narratives challenges researchers’ unconsciously normative assumptions and ought to help us reshape the authors' understanding of the ways spirituality and religion influence health in a hyperdiverse society.
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Hope and positive religious coping as predictors of social justice commitment
TL;DR: This paper tested a theoretical model of dispositional hope and positive religious coping as unique predictors of social justice commitment over and above impression management in a sample of graduate students in helping professions at an Evangelical Protestant university in the USA.
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Religion and dual-process cognition: a continuum of styles or distinct types?
TL;DR: This article reviewed the theoretical and empirical literature on dual-process theory and religion in order to suggest that while these basic intuitive processes may support religious beliefs, we must also expand our understanding of religious cognition in relation to these two types of processes.
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Untangling false assumptions regarding atheism and health
TL;DR: In this article, a psychological profile is developed to understand nonbelief as an expected outcome of individual difference and therefore natural, and the authors argue that we should study the relationship between belief and health through the lens of individual differences.
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Impacts of religious semantic priming on an intertemporal discounting task: Response time effects and neural correlates.
Jonathan Morgan,Dustin Clark,Yorghos Tripodis,Christopher S. Halloran,April Minsky,Wesley J. Wildman,Raymon Durso,Patrick J. McNamara +7 more
TL;DR: A significant positive relationship between religiosity and discounting rates is found and results suggest that religious primes influence discounting behavior via dopaminergic meso-limbic and right dorsolateral prefrontal supporting cognitive valuation and prospection processes.
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