Some psychologists seem to have
too much time on their hands:
A
team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill have used a new technique to construct what a large sample of 511
American Christians think God looks like.
Participants
in the study saw hundreds of randomly varying face-pairs and selected
which face from each pair appeared more like how they imagined God to
appear. By combining all the selected faces, the researchers could
assemble a composite "face of God" that reflected how each person
imagined God to appear.
Their results were both surprising and revealing. From Michelangelo
to Monty Python, Illustrations of God have nearly always shown him as an
old and august white-bearded Caucasian man. But the researchers found
that many Christians saw God as younger, more feminine, and less
Caucasian that popular culture suggests.
He's the uninspiring result:
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