Religion May Have Evolved Because Of Its Ability
To Help People Exercise Self-control
So it takes Scientist to prove what we've already known since when???....ummmmm, the begginning of time maybe.
Guess these Scientist missed the 100's of thousands of articles on how people with strong faiths weather emotional and physical storms better than those without strong faiths.
Guess these Scientist missed the 100's of thousands of articles on how people with strong faiths weather emotional and physical storms better than those without strong faiths.
Religion May Have Evolved Because Of Its Ability To Help People Exercise Self-control ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2009) — Self-control is critical for success in life, and a new study by University of Miami professor of Psychology Michael McCullough finds that religious people have more self-control than do their less religious counterparts.
These findings imply that religious people may be better at pursuing and achieving long-term goals that are important to them and their religious groups. This, in turn, might help explain why religious people tend to have lower rates of substance abuse, better school achievement, less delinquency, better health behaviors, less depression, and longer lives. Read the rest HERE
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