{"id":20558,"date":"2010-06-24T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T09:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-study_devout_are_less_stressed_than_non-believers\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T09:05:51","slug":"rns-study_devout_are_less_stressed_than_non-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20558","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Study: Devout are less stressed than non-believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion may provide a &#8220;buffer&#8221; allowing the devout to feel less anxiety when they make mistakes, compared with non-believers, according to new scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto measured &#8220;error-related negativity&#8221; &#8212; people&#8217;s defensive response to errors &#8212; and compared it to religious belief. Their findings were published in the journal Psychological Science.<\/p>\n<p>In the experiments, participants had electrodes measuring their brain activity as they performed cognitive tests. One test of 40 students involved making a grammatically-correct sentence out of jumbled words; some of the sentences contained words with religious connotations, like &#8220;sacred&#8221; or &#8220;divine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/Study-Devout-are-less-stressed-than-non-believers.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion may provide a &#8220;buffer&#8221; allowing the devout to feel less anxiety when they make mistakes, compared with non-believers, according to new scientific research. Researchers at the University of Toronto measured &#8220;error-related negativity&#8221; &#8212; people&#8217;s defensive response to errors &#8212;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20558\">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-20558","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\/20558","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=20558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}