"No one believes modeling results except the one who performed the calculation; ...everyone believes the experimental results except the one who did the measurements." P. J. Roache - Computational Physicist.

Do lay people and scientists themselves recognize that scientists are human and therefore prone to human fallibilities such as error, bias, and even dishonesty? In a series of three experimental studies and one correlational study (total N = 3,278) we found that the "storybook image of the scientist" is pervasive: American lay people and scientists from over 60 countries attributed considerably...

With interest, we read a recently published article by Vuokko et al. (2015) involving indoor air problems. We thank the authors for raising very important questions related to multiple health problems caused by poor indoor air. Currently, Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is not considered as an enigmatic condition (Zhang et al., 2012). On the contrary, it has gained a lot of interest from immunolog...

Most religious perspectives, particularly the conservative interpretation, emphasize incompatibility of being a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) and religious. This contradiction creates internal conflicts for many LGBT individuals. In social political spheres, groups post hostility rejection against using justification their dogma. The position has been more vulnerable since reform...

for kant, it is impossible for theoretical reason to prove human autonomy and freedom. he, therefore, tries to prove it as an axiom by practical reason or ethics. kant believes freedom as the quality of human will. he has known free will to be the same as autonomous will; that is, human will would be considered free in such a case that it causes some effects while being itself not caused by the...

the relationship between truth and salvation is one of the most debatable issues in religious pluralism. some of the adherents of pluralism have concluded the truth of majority, with a tendency to this topic that most of the people will saved in gathering day. their reason for this claim is some parts of m?lla s?dra’s writing and they claimed that he has been a pluralist in its ordinary sense; ...

Trust is a critical aspect of social interaction. One might predict that individuals trust religious out-groups less than religious in-groups, and that costly signals performed by members of religious in-groups increase trust while costly signals performed by members of religious out-groups decrease trust. We examined how Christian participants perceived the trustworthiness of Muslim and Christ...

The paper analyzes the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation and social cooperation. In particular, we focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, analyze their e¤ect on social interactions in society and identify a "spiritual" as well as a "materi...

Past research argues that religious commitments shape individuals’ prosocial sentiments, including their generosity and solidarity. But what drives the prosociality of less religious people? Three studies tested the hypothesis that, with fewer religious expectations of prosociality, less religious individuals’ levels of compassion will play a larger role in their prosocial tendencies. In Study ...