Explaining Death by Tornado: Religiosity and the God-Serving Bias

Two self-report experiments examined how religiosity affects attributions made for the outcome of a tornado. Undergraduate students (N = 533) and online adults (N = 537) read a fictional vignette about a tornado that hits a small town in the United States. The townspeople met at church and prayed or...

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Authors: Riggio, Heidi R. (Author) ; Uhalt, Joshua (Author) ; Matthies, Brigitte K. (Author)
Contributors: Harvey, Theresa (Other) ; Lowden, Nya (Other) ; Umana, Victoria (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: SAGE Publishing 2018
In: Archive for the psychology of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-59
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Natural catastrophe / Foundations of / Salvation / Will of God / Death
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B God-serving bias religiosity attributions natural disaster atheist agnostic Christian
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