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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023

Would you exchange your soul for immortality?-existential meaning and afterlife beliefs predict mind upload approval.

Michael Laakasuo, Jukka Sundvall, Kathryn Francis, Marianna Drosinou, Ivar Hannikainen, Anton Kunnari, Jussi Palomäki

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Michael LaakasuoDepartment of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki, Finland.
Jukka SundvallDepartment of Digital Humanities, Cognitive Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Kathryn FrancisSchool of Psychology, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom.
Marianna DrosinouDepartment of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki, Finland.
Ivar HannikainenSchool of Psychology, Department of Philosophy, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Anton KunnariDepartment of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, Helsinki, Finland.
Jussi PalomäkiHealth and Well-Being Promotion Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mind upload, or the digital copying of an individual brain and mind, could theoretically allow one to "live forever." If such a technology became available, who would be most likely to approve of it or condemn it? Research has shown that fear of death positively predicts the moral approval of hypothetical mind upload technology, while religiosity may have the opposite effect. We build on these findings, drawing also from work on religiosity and existential mattering as predictors of perceived meaning in one's life. In a cross-sectional study (

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afterlife beliefsexistential matteringmeaning in lifemind uploadmoral judgmentmoral psychology of AImultidimensional existential meaning scaleterror management

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PMID38162973
PMCPMC10757642

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