Fig. 1.

Scores on our primary variables of interest—(A) Spiritual Events, (B) Porosity Vignettes, (C) Porosity Scale, and (D) Absorption—for all samples in all studies. To aid in visual comparison across measures and studies, all scores have been rescaled to range from 0 to 1. Small points correspond to individual participants, larger points are means, and error bars are ±1 SD; see figure for sample sizes (but note that a few participants in each study were missing data for one or more measures). In study 1, “faiths of local salience” were as follows: United States: Methodism; Ghana: African traditional religion; Thailand: Buddhism; urban China: Buddhism; rural China: spirit mediumship; urban Vanuatu: Presbyterianism; rural Vanuatu: ancestral kastom practices.