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SUBMITTER: Jackson JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5995373 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jackson Joshua Conrad JC Hester Neil N Gray Kurt K
PloS one 20180611 6
Literature and art have long depicted God as a stern and elderly white man, but do people actually see Him this way? We use reverse correlation to understand how a representative sample of American Christians visualize the face of God, which we argue is indicative of how believers think about God's mind. In contrast to historical depictions, Americans generally see God as young, Caucasian, and loving, but perceptions vary by believers' political ideology and physical appearance. Liberals see God ...[more]