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Saturday, 24 September 2011 08:00 |
 Boston, MA, USA. Intuition may lead people toward a belief in the Divine and help explain why some people have more faith in God than others. In a series of studies, researchers found that people with a more intuitive thinking style tend to have stronger beliefs in God than those with a more reflective style.
Intuitive thinking means going with a first instinct and reaching decisions quickly based on automatic cognitive processes. Reflective thinking involves the questioning of first instinct and consideration of other possibilities, allowing for counterintuitive decisions.
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Monday, 22 August 2011 08:00 |
 Las Vegas, NV, USA. Attendance at religious services has declined for all white Americans since the early 1970s, but with more than twice the rate of decline for those without college degrees compared to those who graduated from college.
New research suggests that the less educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market.
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Friday, 12 August 2011 14:00 |
 Waco, TX, USA. Regardless of a person's educational background, he or she is less likely to approach the Bible in a literal word-for-word fashion when surrounded by a greater number of church members who went to college.
According to a Baylor University sociology researcher, "When you go to Sunday school and everyone is talking about the cultural and historical background of a passage and its literary genre — a way of reading often learned in college — it's likely to rub off on you".
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Last Updated on Friday, 12 August 2011 13:40 |
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Saturday, 06 August 2011 02:00 |
 Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Scientists show that generosity –– helping others in the absence of foreseeable gains –– emerges naturally from the  evolution of cooperation, so it is built in to human nature more than social pressure.
Computer simulations tested whether evolution would select against generosity in situations where there is no future payoff. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Last Updated on Friday, 05 August 2011 22:06 |
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Monday, 01 August 2011 02:00 |
 Los Angeles, CA, USA. Fame is the No. 1 value emphasized by television shows popular with 9- to 11-year-olds, a dramatic change over the past 10 years.
Psychologists report that on a list of 16 values, fame jumped from the 15th spot, where it was in both 1987 and 1997, to the first spot in 2007. From 1997 to 2007, benevolence (being kind and helping others) fell from second to 13th, and tradition dropped from fourth to 15th.
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