Emotional epistemic goals are an alternative to evidencecoherence, whereby beliefs are held for their aid in achieving some desired subjective goal, independent of the beliefs’ veracity. Some prior research has presumed that deference to “faith” constitutes an emotional goal. However, the epistemic nature of faith and its relation to evidence has been the focus of philosophical debate, both his...

How do people come to believe conspiracy theories, and what role does the internet play in this process as a socio-technical system? We explore these questions by examining online participants "chemtrails" conspiracy, idea that visible condensation trails behind airliners are deliberately sprayed for nefarious purposes. apply Weick's theory of sensemaking examine people's frames (beliefs worldv...

In human life, bio-psycho-socio-cultural and theological explanatory factors for the sexuality are determinative have an effect on sexual feelings, thoughts, attitudes behaviors. Religion is still seen as important predictor of thoughts about sexuality. The aim this research to assess perceptions believers in different religions faith groups non-believers who nationalities around world, which b...

The current research tested competing predictions on whether the experience of personal injustice would increase or decrease internal attributions of others’ success. Compared with the control condition, Study 1 found that individuals gave less credit to another person for his promotion after they recalled their own unfair experience. Study 2 revealed that personal injustice led weak just-world...

Folk religion, as the basis of religious landscape in traditional China, is a highly syncretic system which includes elements from Buddhism, Daoism, and other beliefs. Due to shortcomings denomination-based measurement, most previous social surveys have documented very low percentage folk religion adherents found almost no overlapping among This study offers quantitative portrait popularity, di...