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Church Attendance, Marital Status Can Affect Mood of Older Adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UA graduate student Rita Law's study to evaluate long-term effects of marital status and church attendance is among very few that have considered such a correlation.


Study shows how college major and religious faith affect each other

Study shows how college major and religious faith affect each other

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- College students who major in the social sciences and humanities are likely to become less religious, while those majoring in education are likely to become more religious.


Older black men feel productive, achieve prestige at church

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Older African American women may attend religious services more often than African American men, but men spend more hours per week in other activities at church, a new University of Michigan study found.


Collective religious rituals, not religious devotion, spur support for suicide attacks

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Jeremy Ginges and Ian Hansen from the New School for Social Research along with psychologist Ara Norenzayan from t ...


Study suggests attending religious services sharply cuts risk of death

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (52) | comments 18

A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately ...