Colzato Lorenza S, van den Wildenberg Wery P M, Hommel Bernhard
Leiden University, Cognitive Psychology Unit & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2008;3(11):e3679. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003679. Epub 2008 Nov 12.
Despite the abundance of evidence that human perception is penetrated by beliefs and expectations, scientific research so far has entirely neglected the possible impact of religious background on attention. Here we show that Dutch Calvinists and atheists, brought up in the same country and culture and controlled for race, intelligence, sex, and age, differ with respect to the way they attend to and process the global and local features of complex visual stimuli: Calvinists attend less to global aspects of perceived events, which fits with the idea that people's attentional processing style reflects possible biases rewarded by their religious belief system.
尽管有大量证据表明人类的感知会受到信念和期望的影响，但迄今为止，科学研究完全忽略了宗教背景对注意力可能产生的影响。在此我们表明，在同一个国家和文化中成长、在种族、智力、性别和年龄方面受到控制的荷兰加尔文主义者和无神论者，在关注和处理复杂视觉刺激的全局和局部特征的方式上存在差异：加尔文主义者对感知事件的全局方面关注较少，这与人们的注意力处理方式反映其宗教信仰体系所认可的可能偏差这一观点相符。
