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The link between religiousness and prejudice: Testing competing explanations in an adolescent sample
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Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 13:358-369
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Self and Identity. 18:144-158
In two studies, we examined whether people’s decision to receive evaluations of their own attractiveness depended on whether the evaluations came from sources that might threaten their self-views. Participants believed that evaluators rated their a
Publikováno v:
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence. 29(2)
We examined the extent to which beliefs in a loving God and punitive God correspond with self-reported behavior in an online, longitudinal survey involving three waves of data collection, each separated by 6 months. Adolescents (N = 760) reported the
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Aggressive Behavior. 41:608-621
Although people have used religion to justify aggression, evidence suggests that greater religiousness corresponds with less aggression. We explored two explanations for the religion-aggression link. First, most major religions teach self-control (e.
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Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 6:292-301
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Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 5:242-251
Although numerous studies link adolescent religiousness to a variety of outcomes, limitations in the measurement of adolescent religiousness constrain interpretation of the findings. We introduce a multi-item measure of adolescent religiousness, the
Autor:
Wendi A. Miller, Kate Sweeny
Publikováno v:
Self and Identity. 11:185-201
People frequently face unknown information that has the potential to threaten their views of themselves or others. Two studies investigated the predictors of information avoidance in the context of a romantic relationship (Study 1) and ratings of phy
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Review of General Psychology. 14:340-353
Although acquiring information can provide numerous benefits, people often opt to remain ignorant. We define information avoidance as any behavior designed to prevent or delay the acquisition of available but potentially unwanted information. We revi
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Journal of youth and adolescence. 45(7)
Adolescents' attitudes toward disadvantaged groups are surprisingly understudied. What we know from these few studies is that adolescents' attitudes tend to become more favorable over time and that adolescent girls display more favorable attitudes th