{"id":10462,"date":"2009-01-01T03:53:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_good_self_control_try_getting_religious_about_it\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T03:53:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:53:37","slug":"for_good_self_control_try_getting_religious_about_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10462","title":{"rendered":"For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I\u2019m serious about keeping my New Year\u2019s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, \u201cStart going to church\u201d\u009d?<\/p>\n<p>This is an awkward question for a heathen to contemplate, but I felt obliged to raise it with Michael McCullough after reading his report in the upcoming issue of the Psychological Bulletin. He and a fellow psychologist at the University of Miami, Brian Willoughby, have reviewed eight decades of research and concluded that religious belief and piety promote self-control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/30\/science\/30tier.html?em\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I\u2019m serious about keeping my New Year\u2019s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, \u201cStart going to church\u201d\u009d? This is an awkward question for a heathen to contemplate, but I felt obliged to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10462\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}