Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of ...

Why do people distrust atheists? A study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, people ...

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Even the most secular people and societies usually have their behaviour shaped by religion. We can see its influence in behavioural codes that set out what is considered right and wrong. But we can ...

The main goal of this research is to study the relationship between parents' religious behavior, emotional relations inside family, and self-actualization of male and female high school students of ...

Religion is a ladder you climb; Christianity is a hand reaching down. If you feel exhausted, anxious, or not “good enough,” you might be practicing religion. Christianity invites you to drop the ...

GRAND RAPIDS — The behavior of devoutly religious people doesn’t necessarily match their beliefs, resulting in outcomes incompatible with the convictions they claim to abide by, said a Grand Valley ...

(RNS) — I’m a quantitative scholar of American religion and politics, so I am used to everyone from religion scholars unused to working with data to anxious parents asking me random questions. Those ...

Dear Annie: I am concerned about several of my six siblings. We were brought up very strictly, and we experienced shame if we missed church or sinned. We're all adults with kids of our own now. Over ...

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