A new study suggests individuals who believe words can cause lasting harm also endorse censorship and express higher levels ...

International surveys about the depth of people’s belief in God reveal vast differences among nations, ranging from 94 percent of people in the Philippines who said they always believed in God, ...

For decades, psychologists have observed a consistent pattern: religious people tend to report being happier and more ...

(RNS) — Belief in God has been one of the strongest, most reliable markers of the persistence of American religiosity over the years. But a new Gallup Poll suggests that may be changing. In the latest ...

Religious service attendance at age 12 emerged as the top predictor of adult afterlife belief, especially in secular societies, while childhood adversity and maternal bonds also played subtle roles.

A new Cornell University study is pushing back on a widely accepted claim that American policymakers ignore the preferences of average voters, arguing that earlier research may have misinterpreted the ...

Whether a belief is “sincerely held” is generally an issue of individual credibility. While evidence proving that an employee acted inconsistently with his alleged sincerely held religious belief is ...

"There are two ways to slide easily through life," the noted linguist and mathematician Alfred Korzybski once said. "To believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." ...