Washington, Oct 3 : Your faith in the almighty could help you become more helpful, honest and generous, but only under certain psychological conditions, says a new study by University of British Columbia researchers.
For the study, the scientists analyzed the past three decades of social science research.
UBC social psychologists Ara Norenzayan and Azim Shariff said that religious people are more likely than the non-religious to engage in prosocial behaviour - acts that benefit others at a personal cost - when it enhances the individual''s reputation or when religious thoughts are freshly activated in the person''s mind.
London, Oct. 3: Britain’s Ambassador to the United States, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, has described Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "decidedly liberal" senator "who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions".
In a frank verdict delivered to Prime Minister Gordon Brown through a seven-page letter marked sensitive, Ambassador Sheiwald has described Obama as intelligent but “aloof”
Denver, Oct 2: Republican presidential nominee John McCain has given up on his efforts to win the state of Michigan, his campaign has said.
Ceding Michigan is a major blow to the McCain campaign and is the latest sign that the faltering economy has reshaped the presidential race and cost McCain support in crucial states, the New York Times reported.
Washington, Oct 3 : Astrophysicists at the Carnegie Institution''s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) have shown for the first time that a ''little bang'', in the form of a supernova, could have triggered the solar system''s formation.
For several decades, scientists have thought that the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star-a supernova-that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas cloud that contracted to form the Sun and the planets.
Washington, Oct 3: CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that The fragile state of North Korea and the booming, oil-rich trio of Iran, Venezuela and Russia have grown increasingly aggressive and pose some of the greatest security challenges for the next US President.
Hayden told FOX News that weakness and poverty have made North Korea more aggressive as it threatens to restart work on its nuclear weapons programme.
“This is a country in very, very desperate straits. But out of this weakness, out of this very fragility, there’s this danger of great chaos; they seem to have a knack for using that very fragility to the best of their ability to affect the nations around them - ourselves included,” he said.
Washington, Oct 3: Economists across the board still have a lot of concerns with the financial rescue bill passed by the US Senate.
Interviews conducted with a dozen prominent academic economists, Obama supporters as well as McCain supporters, found little support for the bailout bill.
Indeed, even the one economist who supported the proposal passed by the Senate on Wednesday night had serious reservations, FOX News reported.
London, Oct. 3: Britain’s Ambassador to the United States, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, has described Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "decidedly liberal" senator "who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions".
Denver, Oct 2: Republican presidential nominee John McCain has given up on his efforts to win the state of Michigan, his campaign has said.
Washington, Oct 3 : Astrophysicists at the Carnegie Institution''s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) have shown for the first time that a ''little bang'', in the form of a supernova, could have triggered the solar system''s formation.
Washington, Oct 3: Economists across the board still have a lot of concerns with the financial rescue bill passed by the US Senate.
