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Death can have a profound effect on a person's religious beliefs. In a new study, death not only strengthened a person's religious beliefs but also increased the denial of other religions. 
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"UC Berkeley study finds atheists, agnostics and less religious people are more driven by compassion to be generous. Articles about COMPASSION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=compassion
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Brain images are believed to have a particularly persuasive influence on the public perception of research on cognition. Three experiments are reported showing that presenting brain images with articles summarizing cognitive neuroscience research resulted in higher ratings of scientific reasoning for arguments made in those articles, as compared to articles accompanied by bar graphs, a topographical map of brain activation, or no image
Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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People who are ambidextrous are more likely to have magical beliefs. That's something that was known before but has recently been confirmed by Gjurgjica Badzakova-Trajkov and team from Auckland University, New Zealand.
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(Medical Xpress) -- Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team's pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault?
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It's not about the benefits we gain from believing in this or that. Or the supposed reality of the objects these beliefs describe.
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More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives.
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Matthew Hutson, author of The Seven Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane, argues that superstition has been so evolutionarily advantageous to our species that our brains are hardwired to persist in irrational beliefs against all evidence to the contrary. More on SUPERSTITION: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=superstition
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Some countries are more certain of God's existence than others.
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Humans are overconfident creatures, which boosts our persistence, ambition, and drive—but can also lead to disasters. We can make such false beliefs work to our benefit.
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"From the data, it seems that a growth mindset, whereby you believe that intelligence can improve, lends itself to a more adaptive response to mistakes – not just behaviorally, but also neurally: the more someone believes in improvement, the larger the amplitude of a brain signal that reflects a conscious allocation of attention to mistakes. And the larger that neural signal, the better subsequent performance. That mediation suggests that individuals with an incremental theory of intelligence may actually have better self-monitoring and control systems on a very basic neural level: their brains are better at monitoring their own, self-generated errors and at adjusting their behavior accordingly. It’s a story of improved on-line error awareness—of noticing mistakes as they happen, and correcting for them immediately…." Via Howard Rheingold
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(Medical Xpress) -- Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that come together to influence the course of our illness.
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News article: How our brains perceive illusions - Friday January 13, 4pm, Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Building...
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