Introducing the modified paranormal belief scale: distinguishing between classic paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales [PDF]
, 2009 Previous empirical studies concerned with the association between paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity have produced conflicting evidence. Drawing on Rice's (2003) distinction between classic paranormal beliefs and religious paranormal beliefs,
Williams, Emyr +5 more
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Religious attitudes and Muslim identity, with reference to Turkish university students [PDF]
, 2000 The thesis explores religious attitudes and Muslim identity in Turkey from a social psychological perspective with reference to university students. Religious attitudes are explored in relation to three components: cognitive, behavioural and affective ...
Onay, Ahmet
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Did natural selection select for true religious beliefs?
, 2022 Although it is commonly accepted that Darwinian evolution could select for true common-sense beliefs, it is altogether less certain that the same can be said for other classes of beliefs, such as moral or religious beliefs.
Bennett, Christopher T. +1 more
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How clients with religious or spiritual beliefs experience psychological help-seeking and therapy: a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2007 This qualitative study explores the process of help-seeking and therapy among clients with religious or spiritual beliefs. Ten clients who were currently in, or had recently finished, therapy were interviewed.
Claire Mayers +7 more
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Religious—And Other Beliefs: How Much Specificity?
SAGE Open, 2020 The scientific study of beliefs, including religious beliefs, is thriving. The focus of this research is broad, but notably includes attempts at classifying different kinds of beliefs and their contrasting traits. Religious beliefs appear as more or less
Lluis Oviedo, Konrad Szocik
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Religion and HIV in Tanzania: Influence of Religious Beliefs on HIV stigma, Disclosure, and Treatment Attitudes. [PDF]
, 2009 Religion shapes everyday beliefs and activities, but few studies have examined its associations with attitudes about HIV. This exploratory study in Tanzania probed associations between religious beliefs and HIV stigma, disclosure, and attitudes toward ...
Yvonne Yamanaka +17 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Parental religious beliefs and practices (religiosity) may have profound effects on youth, especially in neurodevelopmentally complex periods such as adolescence.
Skylar J. Brooks +3 more
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Measuring spiritual belief: development and standardization of a Beliefs and Values Scale. [PDF]
, 2005 BACKGROUND: Higher levels of religious involvement are modestly associated with better health, after taking account of other influences, such as age, sex and social support.
Barnes, Kelly +26 more
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A Marriage of Happiness and Religious Beliefs in a Nutshell
Horyzonty Wychowania, 2022 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between happiness and religious beliefs. THE RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND METHODS: The research problem is contained in the question: What is the relationship between happiness and ...
Anna Hamling
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Cognitive Biases of the Human Mind in the Acceptance of Religious Beliefs [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2019 The cognitive science of religion is an emerging field of cognitive science that gathers insights from different disciplines to explain how humans acquire and transmit religious beliefs.
Sayyed Mahdi Biabanaki
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