{"id":21183,"date":"2010-08-10T01:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lifesite_news_new_study_finds_thinking_about_god_reduces_anxiety_for_believ\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T01:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T01:55:55","slug":"lifesite_news_new_study_finds_thinking_about_god_reduces_anxiety_for_believ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21183","title":{"rendered":"Lifesite news: New Study Finds Thinking about God Reduces Anxiety For Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about your faith in God may make you less upset about making mistakes, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eighty-five percent of the world has some sort of religious beliefs,&#8221; said Michael Inzlicht, who co-wrote the study with Alexa Tullett, in a University of Toronto statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it behooves us as psychologists to study why people have these beliefs; exploring what functions, if any, they may serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/ldn\/2010\/aug\/10080904.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about your faith in God may make you less upset about making mistakes, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. &#8220;Eighty-five percent of the world has some sort of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21183\">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":[39,104,129,108,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183","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=21183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}