God or dog? It means those of them who do not keep a pet. These two factors, pets and belief in the supernatural, serve as a substitute for social connection in individual people
What causes belief in miracles and wonders? It turns out that people who feel lonely are more likely to believe in the supernatural, whether in God, angels or miracles, according to a new study. "Humans evolved during evolution as social creatures, so they prefer to cut off loneliness and live in groups. This feature was necessary for the survival and security of our ancestors, and complete isolation or ostracism like them was a death sentence," says Nicholas Epley, a researcher from the University of Chicago who led the study.
Looking for closeness
While living in groups is not a critical factor for survival in the modern world, the need for social closeness is indeed such a need, feeling loneliness and isolation is a painful emotional state for humans, says Epley, and may even lead to a state of illness, both physically and mentally. "Being in social isolation is not a good situation for anyone", he said, everyone needs love. According to him, when people feel lonely, they may try to rekindle old friendships, look for new ones, or, as Apple's research suggests, try to create social relationships or humanize nearby objects such as computers or vehicles, pets, or through belief in supernatural events or beings. on a religious background.
In the study, detailed in the February issue of the journal Psychological Science, Epley's team tried to induce feelings of loneliness in humans and measure how their thoughts about pets or religious beliefs change.
In one of the experiments, students were asked to watch movie clips and try to identify with the main character as much as possible and try to rate these feelings in one of three emotional states. One group watched a clip from the movie "Cast Away" in which the main character played by Tom Hanks was left on a deserted island, with the aim of instilling in them the feeling of being isolated. The second group saw a scene from the thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" to promote a sense of fear in them, and the control group saw a clip from the sports comedy Major League.
Humanize pets
All three groups were asked to describe a pet they own or know and to choose three statements from a list that describe that animal. The list included human traits related to social relationships (considerate, sympathetic) and simple behavioral descriptions (aggressive, energetic, cowardly).
The participants from the loneliness group were more likely to describe the animal using the human descriptions compared to those from the fear group or the control group. All three groups were asked to rate their belief in spirits, angels, Satan, miracles, curses and God and again, those in the loneliness group reported a stronger belief in the supernatural agents they previously believed in.
In another part of the study, Epley and his colleagues asked participants from the University of Chicago to fill out personality questionnaires and were told that the answers would be fed into a computer that would make a prediction about their future lives. Half of the participants read announcements according to which they would be single for the rest of their lives and the other half received rosy predictions regarding their social relationships. "We tried to manipulate their sense of loneliness, to let them feel alone" said Apley.
Loneliness and faith
The participants were also asked to rate their belief in the same supernatural agents as in the previous study, and those in the solitary group reported a stronger belief than their friends in the socially connected group. The results were also compared to the rating that the same participants provided before receiving their predictions, and those who reported believing in God before and received the loneliness prediction - reported a stronger belief after the experience.
"We found that encouraging people to feel lonely made them more religious in the end," Epley told Live Science. At the same time, he comments that this did not cause sudden repentance."
Caring for animals or believing in God are considered factors that encourage a person's subjective good feeling, but to what extent exactly, this is not clear. Epley and his colleagues plan to investigate the issue further to see whether humanized animals or belief in a humanized supernatural agent are the things that improve the feeling of lonely people. So these factors can be used to improve the social feeling of people for whom contact with other human beings is not an option.
"There are medical benefits that come from connecting with other people and the same benefits seem to come from connecting with animals or with religious agents," Epley said.
Volunteers will be questioned to examine whether religious belief affects the feeling of pain
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The Rebbe graduated with an engineering degree at the Sorbonne University, so he knows physics very well.
And the metaphor says that everyone eventually reaches their root.
To the anonymous user:
What nonsense is it to claim that the sentence the rabbi says does not belong to physics.
It turns out that you don't understand what physics is and the fact that you didn't understand the metaphor stems from that.
I will protect animals even in a million years
The joke is old but what is not nice is that the person doing the experiment is Arab. Also, if you conclude from the sentence that the person who said it doesn't understand physics, you probably don't know what physics is at all... it's not a sentence that deals with physics, it's some kind of metaphor (which I didn't go into the depth of).
To my religion:
The joke is old and nice, but what doesn't belong?! There is simply no connection!
Your story about the Rebbe says he had no idea about physics.
in her
This reminds me of a nice joke, there was some Arab who did research on a spider and checked how many legs a spider jumps on. In short, he took off a leg, and asked him to jump and jumped, and another one, etc. Finally he took off the last one, and asked him to jump and he didn't jump. So he wrote in his report that a spider without legs does not hear...
This is roughly the research presented to you,
Just to add that there is an expression in the Sages that says "throw hotra aoira a'sna kai" which means that when you throw a plank into the air then its core (what was connected to the ground) will be down, that this rule applies to everything in the entire creation and therefore man is drawn to the flames,
Attached to this article in YNET is a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe who discusses in depth all of the above topics
Research nonsense.
Everything is money
It is unpleasant to say, but as in many studies in the humanities, the research does not innovate anything, and the main thing in it is not the research but the interpretation.
The 'infidel' will apply the research to the individual person - that person who does not have a close soul, and therefore he likes to 'invent' evil for him.
The believer will apply the research to the lonely person but also to the lonely person - that person, who may have family and friends and may not, but in any case he is not overwhelmed by all the deliberate and random distractions that, especially nowadays, can easily cover the eyes of any person from being able to feel the God that fills all of creation. As the Rabbi of Kotzek said: "Where is G-d?" Wherever they let him in." In order to spare the site owners the (shocking for them) feeling that their site is turning into a site for religious information, I hereby refrain from copying the Rambam's wonderful language about the way in which our forefather Avraham came to faith.
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Society:
How about reading the article before commenting on it?
Nothing is written there so people invented new illusions. It's just that the illusions they already had got stronger as a result of inducing a feeling of loneliness.
It has nothing to do with the question of whether they were religious before and how many children they have and it is likely (although not explicitly stated) that the people were divided between the groups when all the relevant characteristics are similar.
several questions:
1. Did the researchers take into account that the majority of the world's population believes in one God or another (including over 300 million Americans, most of whom are defined as "believers").
2. Did the researchers take into account religious families, who are often blessed with children and "loneliness" is not an existing concept in their sphere of living.
3. Do the researchers know the term "healing by the power of faith"? This is a purely medical term, and the assumption is that precisely people who "believe" deal more easily with illnesses and crises. I should mention a study done at Bar-Ilan University in which the researchers concluded that religious women find it easier to lose weight than secular women, due to unconditional adherence to requested diets or instructions.
4. Did the study examine the researchers themselves and their loneliness in life? Perhaps this loneliness led to conducting the research? The research is puzzling, the questions are strange, and the conclusions are perhaps good for the awarding of an Ignoval Prize to researchers.
5. When I read a sentence like: "In a study, detailed in the February issue of the journal Psychological Science, Apple's team tried to evoke a feeling of loneliness in humans and measure how their thoughts about pets or religious beliefs change.", the thought occurs to me, do those researchers need themselves for a psychological examination or observation...
To summarize and clarify: the writer of these lines is an atheist, who does not believe in anything (other than a minus in the bank account), but is able to diagnose futile and useless studies, not to mention their conclusions.
Hanan
http://WWW.EURA.ORG.IL
A little extra
Humans possess a sensitivity that cannot be underestimated. when they participate in psychological experiments. They usually cooperate with the ulterior motives of the examining psychologists. Out of empathy for these lonely souls. To help them get out of the usual depression they are in and make their hearts happy.
Most psychological experiments are pre-biased to the point of view of the psychologist who made the claim and created the experiment. In short, the intuition of individual psychologists determines in advance how other people who are the subjects of the test should think and respond. This probably makes psychologists the loneliest people in the universe.
bullshit!
what do they think That they can change someone's faith because of a movie?
Either the people they took for research are really mentally weak, or from the beginning there was a different number of believers in the groups.
You must be referring to the religious and doss who raise ten children on average.
And not for those who are going to study for a degree in science. Living alone in a one bedroom apartment. Get married at age 37 if at all and give birth to 0.3 children on average.