This April's issue of the Journal of Religion and Health witnessed the publication of a new study stating that there is a link between the belief in an angry God and mental illness.
More precisely, the study maintains that believers in an angry deity also display higher rates of disorders such as soc... [read more >>] This past Monday, a team of German researchers working with Berlin's Humboldt University and Darmstadt's Technical University made it public news that Facebook must be held accountable for making people feel both dissatisfied with their lives and jealous of their seemingly more successful friends.... [read more >>] Most of the actors involved in the events that culminated with the 2008 global financial crisis – bankers, politicians and economists – displayed signs of maniac behavior, investigators in the United Kingdom say. The indicators were there for anyone who was looking. The behavior these people e... [read more >>] A researcher from the Basque Country says that people in the Western world tend to live well, but die badly, and believes that this issue can be addressed. According to a research by scientist Iñaki Olaizola, most of the individuals investigated are more afraid of how they will die than of actually d... [read more >>] Some experts proposed some time ago that the human brain might have a distinct area responsible for underlying spirituality and religious beliefs, called the God spot. A study conducted by experts at the University of Missouri says that no such area of the brain exists.
Rather, the team argues, the brain ... [read more >>] A series of three new studies indicates that less religious people, agnostics and atheists are more likely to be generous to those in need while driven by compassion than highly religious individuals. The works call into question widespread assumptions about the link between religion and compassion.
Resear... [read more >>] A group of investigators from the University of Illinois believes it may have found the key people need to use in order to withstand most types of temptation. They say that stopping any type of resistance, and simply relaxing, makes it a lot easier not to relapse in a habit, or eat something that is unhealt... [read more >>] The origins of the human brain may go way farther back in time than we first believed. According to the conclusions of a new study, the brains of humans and sea-dwelling worms share a genetic link. Needless to say the two species separated from their last common ancestor millions of years ago, but traces t... [read more >>] Startup GoFlow is planning to develop and commercialize do-it-yourself (DIY) Transcranial Direct Stimulation (TDS) kits, which could be made available for as little as $99. These devices would allow people to overclock their brains in the comfort of their own homes.
The technique relies on delivering a st... [read more >>] According to the details of a new study published in the February 27 issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), it would appear that rich and well-off people are more likely to behave unethically than poorer individuals.
The question as to which social class is m... [read more >>] |
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