When it comes to grace, most people believe that the universe is their personal fans – but it is a strict judge for all, according to a new study published on May 1 by the American Association of Psychology of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
The researchers requested more than 2000 people of religious and non -religious origins to write about their experiences with vine – the belief that good deeds are a reward and that bad deeds are punished – and a common line came out of their answers.
When the participants wrote about themselves, he told 59 % stories about their reward Good deeds. In their stories about others, 92 % reported how bad luck reaches unclean partners, debtors, workers and workers of bad participants.
“Thinking TicketSindh White, in a statement. “But it also allows people to see the suffering of others as a justified sigh.”
The results provide a window on the way our minds constitute rulings on ourselves and those around us, according to the assistant professor at York University in Toronto who study as psychological motives that interact with spirituality.
An unknown response from the study says: “I believe a firm belief in making charitable donations to those who need, regardless of how small it is,” says an unknown response from the study. “It helped me do so a lot and sometimes pushed people to make me prefer without asking.”
Another answer says: “I met someone who was always rude and harsh to everyone; he did nothing good in his life. He was diagnosed with cancer, and I could only think that the vine is.”
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The study determines the tendency to a vision that deserves good luck, even in the absence of direct reasons, as a form of “bias of support” – a concept of psychologists for decades, according to Patrick Heck, a psychologist at the Financial Protection Office, commented on his personal ability.
Heck, who did not participate in the study, says: “The theory of chain of transmission and the biases of support is the general idea that people attribute to some things that happen to them or other people in ways that make them feel satisfied with themselves.”
In some way, the bias of support serves the purpose of promotion Self -respectWhich helps people overcome the challenges in life, according to Eva. But at other times, people can make mistakes when they do not know the contributions of others or external factors of success.
On the other hand, the belief that the suffering of others is a form of punishment comes from the need to believe that the world is just. This belief can help people understand the complexity of life, according to it.
“(The world) is full of statistical noise. Random things happen to people all the time. We know a lot of psychology research that people fight for the reconciliation of randomness in their lives.” “It is very convincing to want to get a story or explanation for the reason for the good things of some people and why bad things occur to other people. I think the vine is a good way you may have found its way to religion and other beliefs systems.”
Cultural differences
The concept of vine is established in Asian religious traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, and there are many differences in how to practice it between different groups, according to White. For this reason, the study took samples from the participants from the United States, Singapore and India to obtain a wide range of cultural and religious origins.
It is worth noting that the results showed a slight difference between Western and non -Western respondents, with Indian and Singerians who show less self -bias -a discovery consistent with Previous research.
“We find very similar patterns in multiple cultural contexts, including Western samples, where we know that people often think about themselves in excessive positive ways, and samples from Asian countries where people are likely to be self -defined,” said White. “But in all countries, the participants were more likely to say that others were facing church sanctions while receiving al -Karmiya rewards.”
Wide effects of Karma research
White says his future research will explore how these beliefs about Karma affect decisions.
He says: “Sometimes, there are differences between their religious beliefs, which people really think about daily life, and how they behave.” “There may be other positions as they are stimulated through their own experience, and they will think about the vine in a completely different way.”
However, belief -based biases can have extensive effects in the real world, especially when it comes to formulating politics and our judicial system, according to HECK.
Often, social biases such as racism and discrimination on the social class work under the hypothesis that the “lower” group has achieved its position through socially unacceptable. Such visions can affect the treatment provided to these groups and people’s willingness to provide assistance.
Finally, Yong, who is also a psychoanalyst, says he believes that the biases that have been studied are common in most people. It can be a form of defense, which arose from early childhood experiences and the need to feel safe.
“I work hard with patients to develop sympathy and a sense of common humanity,” Jong says. “This is not a matter of influencing religion. It is about the basic ethics of the patient.”
