Psychological common ground could ease tensions among those with different religious beliefs

Monday, January 7, 2013 - 13:01 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study found that thoughts of death increased atheists, Christians, Muslims and agnostics conviction in their own world views. For example, contrary to the wartime aphorism that there are no atheists in foxholes, thoughts of death did not cause atheists to express belief in a deity.

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