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Connors MH & Halligan PW (2022): Revealing the Cognitive Neuroscience of Belief. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 16:926742. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.926742

Connors MH & Halligan PW (2017): Belief and Belief Formation: Insights from Delusions. In: Hans-Ferdinand Angel et al (Eds): Processes of Believing: The Acquisition, Maintenance, and Change in Creditions, Cham. Springer 2017, Springer, Cham

Connors MH & Halligan PW (2015): A cognitive account of belief: a tentative road map.front. Psychol. 5 :1588. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01588

McNamara P, Newsome W, Linkenhoker B & Grafman J (2024): Neuroscientists must not be afraid to study religion, Nature, Vol. 631, 4 July pp. 25 - 27

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McNamara P, & Grafman J (2024): Advances in brain and religion studies: a review and synthesis of recent representative studies, Front. Hum. Neurosci, Sec. Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 18 - 2024 (29 November 2024). https://doi. org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1495565 pdf

Mousley A, Bethlehem RAI, Yes FC, Astle DE (2025): Topological turning points across the human lifespan. Nature. Nature Communications 16, 10055. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65974-8

Park SQ, Kahnt T, Dogan A, Strang S, Fehr E & Tobler PN (2017): A neural link between generosity and happiness. Nature Communications 8, 15964, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15964

Pechey R & Halligan PW (2012): Exploring the Folk Understanding of Belief: Identifying Key Dimensions Endorsed in the General Population.Journal of Cognition and Culture,12(1-2), 81-99. doi.org/10.1163/156853712X633947

Pechey R & Halligan PW (2011): The Prevalence of Delusion-Like Beliefs Relative to Sociocultural Beliefs in the General Population Psychopathology (2011) 44 (2): 106-115. https://doi.org/10.1159/000319788

Rigoli, F., & Lennon, J. (2025). The gods as latent causes: A statistical inference theory of religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 35(3), 87–112.

^{See the reaction from perspective of credition research by RJ Seitz: Formation and Articulation of Religious Beliefs. In:}^{The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, (2025).}^{https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2497134}

Schwitzgebel E (2024): Belief, in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2024 Edition), eds: Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman

van Elk, M. (2025): Can psychedelic experiences induce religious credences? Religion, Brain & Behaviour, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2025.2517569

Van Eyghen H. (2025): Top-Down Constraints on Religious Perception and Reliability. In: Horvat, S., Roszak, P. (eds) Neuroscience of Religion. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion, 2025; vol 21, 143 - 153. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-02444-2_9

Vesga, A., Van Leeuwen, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2025). Evidence for multiple kinds of belief in theory of mind. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(8), 2241-2256. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001765.

Yanagisawa K, Nakaib R, Asanob K, Kashimad ES, Sugiura H & Abe N (2025): Optimistic people are all alike: Shared neural representations supporting episodic future thinking among optimistic individuals. PNAS Research Article, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.25111011

Zeman A (2024): Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring extremes of imagery vividness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(5), 467–480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.02.007

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