Spirituality
Does religion make people more moral ?
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T.K. RandallSeptember 13, 2014 ·
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A new study has examined how religious and political affiliations affect how we perceive morality.
Researchers from Saint Peter's University in New Jersey and the University of Illinois in Chicago asked 1,252 adults from the United and States and Canada a number of questions about their experiences both committing and witnessing good and bad deeds.
While those from different religious and political backgrounds might seem to be at loggerheads on a number of moral issues, the study found that people tend to commit the same number of good deeds regardless of their personal beliefs.
There were however some differences among the participants - deeply religious people tended to experience a more intense feeling of guilt or embarrassment upon committing an immoral act and a deeper sense of pride or satisfaction when committing a moral one.
On the political side, liberals and conservatives appeared to have similar morals but tended to think and talk about moral concepts in different ways.
"As far as I know, this is the first study that's used this kind of lived-experience approach to track morality as it's happening," said psychologist Dan Wisneski.
Source:
Live Science |
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