A disbelief in human evolution was associated with higher levels of prejudice, racist attitudes and support of discriminatory behavior against Blacks, immigrants and the LGBTQ community in the U.S., according to University ...
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Published in the Journal of Religion and Health, a recent study surveyed Christian and irreligious people online at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests that those with strongly held convictions in their Christian ...
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2021
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Religious beliefs are not linked to intuition or rational thinking, according to new research by the universities of Coventry and Oxford.
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Nov 8, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with ties to several different institutions in Australia has published a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B refuting claims made by other researchers that the advent ...
Scientists surveyed 600 Dutch people on what they think and believe about certain topics and how that affects their opinions on science. Specifically, it involved what they thought about nanotechnology, human genome editing ...
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is discriminatory, susceptible to racial and sexist bias and its improper use is sending education into a global crisis, a leading Charles Darwin University (CDU) expert warns in a new research ...
Education
Aug 15, 2023
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Church attendance in western democracies has declined; yet, a new University of Missouri study shows religious beliefs still influence people at the polls.
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Apr 21, 2011
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A newly compiled dataset quantitatively captures witchcraft beliefs in countries around the world, enabling investigation of key factors associated with such beliefs. Boris Gershman of American University in Washington, D.C., ...
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Nov 23, 2022
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The history of science is also a history of people resisting new discoveries that conflict with conventional wisdom.
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Jun 13, 2016
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Beliefs about all-knowing, punishing gods—a defining feature of religions ranging from Christianity to Hinduism—may have played a key role in expanding co-operation among far-flung peoples and led to the development of ...
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2016
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