News tagged with religious
Where religious belief and disbelief meet in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that the process of believing or disbelieving a statement, whether religious or not, seems to be governed by the same areas in the brain.
Researchers find brain differences between believers and non-believers
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers.
Surprising find: Medieval China was religious melting pot
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it has gained a reputation for being closed off to the outside world, new research shows China has a long history of multiculturalism that extends back to the dynastic era.
Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...
Public opinion a good predictor of terror attacks: study
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes.
Study shows how college major and religious faith affect each other
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(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.
Study: High school teachers influence student views of evolution, creationism
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 01, 2009 |
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College students' views about evolution and creationism are often shaped by what they learned in their high school biology classes, according to a University of Minnesota study published in the May issue of BioScience, the jo ...
Scholars contend Darwin based his theories on humans, not animals
Biology /
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Charles Darwin is widely thought to have developed his natural selection theory of evolution after noting differences among finches in the Galapagos Islands.
Past religious diversity and intolerance have profound impact on genetics of Iberian people
Dec 04, 2008 |
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New research suggests that relatively recent events had a substantial impact on patterns of genetic diversity in the southwest region of Europe. The study, published by Cell Press on December 4th in the American Journal of ...
Study suggests attending religious services sharply cuts risk of death
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 20, 2008 |
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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 ...
Religious belief and devotion linked to sense of personal control
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An individual's level of commitment to religious rituals like praying and attending service is directly linked to their sense of personal control in life, according to new University of Toronto research.
Spirituality protects against depression better than church attendance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 23, 2008 |
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Those who worship a higher power often do so in different ways. Whether they are active in their religious community, or prefer to simply pray or meditate, new research out of Temple University suggests that a person's religiousness ...
MU anthropologist develops new approach to explain religious behavior
Sep 09, 2008 |
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Without a way to measure religious beliefs, anthropologists have had difficulty studying religion. Now, two anthropologists from the University of Missouri and Arizona State University have developed a new approach to study ...
Prevalence of religious congregations affects mortality rates
Jul 03, 2008 |
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LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment – that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale – affects mortality rates, often in a positive ...
Web searches for religious topics on the rise
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Religion is not just for churches, synagogues or mosques anymore -- it's a topic that is being actively searched for online, according to researchers at Penn State.
