Reactions to prayer at governmental meetings
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Modulation of the Neurophysiological Response to Fearful and Stressful Stimuli Through Repetitive Religious Chanting
Published on: November 4, 2021
Timothy K Daugherty1, Aimee M West, Melissa C Williams
1Psychology Department, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA. daughertyt@winthrop.edu
Abstract:
An interaction of mean ratings of support and intent to vote for officials between scenarios in which the religion of a government official offering a prayer was experimentally manipulated, and the reported reaction of the community, was related to 64 college women's support and intention to vote for the official. Importance of religion to the participants contributed significant variance as a covariate.
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