Study Finds No ‘God Spot’ in Brain, But Welter of Spiritual Connections
May 14th, 2012
While scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” a distinct area of the ...
While scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” a distinct area of the ...
A new study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia set out to explore the fundamental ...
When caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s use yoga to engage in very brief, easy daily meditations, they lower levels of depression, improve cognitive functioning and reduce stress-induced cellular ...
A new study finds that religious people are better able to forgo immediate satisfaction in order to gain larger rewards in the future.
The study, published online in ...
As non-religious people contemplate their own death they become more consciously firm in their non-religious beliefs, but unconsciously more receptive to religious belief, according to ...
Narcissism is more harmful to very devout people, according to a new study from Baylor University.
"Devout people who are narcissistic and exercise ...
Thinking about religion gives people more self-control, according to a new study from Queen's University.
"After unscrambling sentences containing religiously oriented words, participants in our studies exercised significantly ...
While religion has been found to improve self-esteem and enhance psychological adjustment, a new study finds that these benefits are ...
A new study has found that the more time a person spends in church, the lower their blood pressure. It's not clear whether strength of religious beliefs is connected ...
Experts have known that feeling good about your country is associated with feeling good about your own life.
However, the issue becomes a little ...
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