Fig 1.
Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam,” in which God (top right) is depicted as a stern, white-bearded man.
Fig 2.
The base image (a composite of 50 faces that represent the collective demographics of the US population) and three of the 300 stimuli created by adding visual noise to the base image.
Fig 3.
God’s perceived face (left) and anti-face (right) across American Christians.
Fig 4.
Aggregates of the images that liberal participants (left panel) and conservative participants (right panel) associated with how they viewed God.
Fig 5.
Liberals perceived God as more feminine, younger, more African American, more loving, and less powerful than conservatives.
The horizontal axis represents the percentage that a specific feature was associated with a conservative (versus liberal) face. Error bars represent standard errors.
Fig 6.
Aggregates of the images that young participants (left panel) and old participants (right panel) associated with how they viewed God.
Fig 7.
Egocentricity in perceptions of God.
The perceived face of God was older for older people, more attractive for more attractive people, and marginally more African American for African Americans. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of trials in which a face was associated with its egocentric category. Bars represent standard errors.