Psychology of Religion

Atheists and agnostics are willing to pay real money to avoid "thoughts and prayers" from their Christian counterparts, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new research sheds light on the heated...

New research confirms that there is a negative relationship between religiosity and intelligence. The findings have been published in the scientific journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. "Religiosity is a pervasive phenomenon. Its influence can be felt in all spheres...

Religious people need less evidence to believe a religious claim than a scientific claim, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. But the study also indicates that religious people require less evidence than nonreligious people to...

According to new research, religiously affiliated people tend to be less supportive of candidates who they believe are associated with atheism -- even if the candidates are religious themselves. The findings have been published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied....

New research helps explain why religious belief can be both positively and negatively associated with prejudicial attitudes. The findings have been published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. "My colleagues and I observed that the relationship between religiousness...

Research indicates there is "extreme moral prejudice" against nonreligious people around the world, which appears to be rooted in intuitions about religion's role in morality. Whether religious people are actually morally superior to their less religious counterparts, however, remains unclear....

New research helps to unravel the complex relationship between religion and support for redistributive policies. The findings indicate that different facets of religion have different influences on attitudes towards redistribution. The study, which has been published in PLOS One, also...

New research sheds light on the unifying and dividing influences that religion can have on marital relationships. The study has been published in Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. "Religion is an extremely complex construct. However, much of the research on...

New research published in Brain and Behavior provides evidence that religious and spiritual beliefs lower the risk of depression because they're associated with changes in white matter microstructure, the communication pathways of the brain. "A previous study found that persons...

Research has consistently found that women tend to be more religious than men. A new study published in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion provides evidence that a small part of this difference could be to due risk...

New research published in Anthrozoös indicates that people who are very religious or not religious at all are the most likely to support the killing of animals. "I am interested in the psychological forces that motivate people to support the...

Regardless of whether people hold right-wing or left-wing beliefs, they tend to disapprove of people who are not aligned with their political preferences, according to new research in the European Journal of Social Psychology. "The majority of psychological research has...

A new study has found that the more literally a person understands metaphorical statements and the more religious they are, the more likely they are to share pseudo-profound bullshit on social media. The new research, published in Applied Cognitive Psychology,...

New research provides evidence that delusion-prone individuals, dogmatic individuals, and religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news. The study, which appears in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, suggests that the inability to detect false...

New research provides evidence that the personal religious beliefs of United States Senators influence their legislative behavior. The study was published in The Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion. "I became interested in the topic of the influence of...