This article provides a conceptual framework for studying the effects of religion on consumer
behavior, with the goal of stimulating future research at the intersection of these two topics …

Human engagement with religion and spirituality is pervasive across the world, yet the
extent to which religious and/or spiritual involvement promotes well-being is controversial …

A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us--including many of those who are
persecuted and powerless--so often defend the social systems that cause misery and …

Individual differences researchers very commonly report Pearson correlations between their
variables of interest. Cohen (1988) provided guidelines for the purposes of interpreting the …

Although the positive association between religiosity and life satisfaction is well
documented, much theoretical and empirical controversy surrounds the question of how …

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our
world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at …

Many of the links of religiousness with health, well-being, and social behavior may be due to
religion's influences on self-control or self-regulation. Using Carver and Scheier's (1998) …

Numerous authors have suggested that religious belief has a positive association, possibly
causal, with prosocial behavior. This article critiques evidence regarding this “religious …

When approaching religion from a cross-cultural psychological perspective, one faces
questions regarding the universals and the specifics of religions across cultural contexts. On …

The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …