Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Nick obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Wolverhampton, his MSc at the University of Plymouth and his PhD at Cardiff University and is now a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He mainly teaches Cognitive Psychology and Research and Statistics. His areas of research interest involve auditory distraction, music and cognition, emotion and cognition, cognitive processes of religious thinking, and reasoning and decision-making. He has also appeared on the radio discussing how background music affects performance.
Why are people religious? A cognitive perspective
Dec 19, 2018 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The quick and easy answer to why people are religious is that God in whichever form you believe he/she/they take(s) is real and people believe because they communicate with it and perceive evidence of its involvement in...
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