As expected from previous work, there was a main effect of belief and outcome and interaction between belief and outcome.
Only around half the population now declare any form of religious belief and that effect is strongest among so-called Wasps (white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants).
In fact, uncompromising belief and its effects has been studied.
He knew that most of our sophisticated, theoretical knowledge about science rests on a deep belief in cause and effect, and he realized that his own empiricist epistemology did not really allow for belief in cause and effect.
The idea that such an aggressive and life-threatening disease arises randomly runs contrary to our firm belief in cause and effect.
If you are a sensible person with a family, a full-time job and a sound belief in cause and effect, you might want to avoid the Côte d'Or.
But many people do see a threat in the efforts by evangelical Christians like Pat Robertson to change laws to conform to their beliefs and in effect produce a uniformly Christian America.
The PCA revealed a four-factor solution in the student sample: (1) fear of illness and death; (2) treatment experience; (3) hypochondriacal beliefs; and (4) effect of symptoms.
In sum, activating negative metastereotypes should lower employability beliefs, and this effect should be mediated by deficits in state self-esteem (Hypothesis 1).
As expected, group members who activated negative metastereotypes reported reduced employability beliefs and this effect was, again, attributable to a reduction in state self-esteem (95% CI: LL = −.185, UL =.023).
The scales were named (1) fear of illness and death, (2) treatment experience, (3) hypochondriacal beliefs and (4) effect of symptoms and attained reliabilities [ 25] of (1) α = 0.82, (2) α = 0.75, (3) α = 0.65 and (4) α = 0.74 (n = 296).
