Social desirability bias can change the results from marketing experiments and surveys.
However, there are few illustrations that show how serious social desirability bias can be …

The nature of religious change and the future of religion have been central questions of
social science since its inception. But empirical research on this question has been quite …

Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often
for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and 'spiritual'ideas, practices and …

While Canada is known for its official commitment to diversity, a close look at our media
reveals that though they frequently promote superficial representations of difference, they …

Recent events have raised concern about potential threats to democracy within Western
countries. If Western citizens who are open to authoritarian governance share a common set …

In their classic review of empirical research in the social psychology of religion, Argyle and
Beit-Hallahmi (1975) concluded that: The differences between men and women in their …

Using the latest mental health cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey (N= 20,868),
this paper examines how the importance of religion or spirituality in one's life associates with …

Recent theoretical and empirical evidence has been pointing toward a new development
with regard to religion in the Western world: one of polarization between secular and …

Proponents of restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols in public institutions in
Quebec have often framed their support in the language of liberalism, with references to …

Many religious scholars have noted a decline in institutional forms of religion in Canada.
With fewer Canadians regularly attending church or following denominational proscriptions …