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Contributing to a better understanding

December 30th, 2008 by SecureCare

“…”The importance of self-control and self-regulation for understanding human behavior are well known to social scientists, but the possibility that the links of religiosity to self-control might explain the links of religiosity to health and behavior has not received much explicit attention…religion can motivate people to do just about anything.”" Full Slice

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2 Responses to “Contributing to a better understanding”

  1. dean Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 15:16

    …or dare I say it: Propensity towards self-control can lead one to adopting religiosity. Armed with that thought, I may look into the article. Or not.

    Hey, maybe somebody should do a genome-wide association study and then they can trot out some spurious genetic correlations as well.

  2. SecureCare Says:
    December 31st, 2008 at 18:40

    I think the nugget is this string :

    “…Religious lifestyles may contribute to self-control…by giving people the sense that God is watching their behavior…”