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New Scientific research: Believers Make Less Errors
Written by: H. Bernard WechslerArticle Overview: Excess (chronic) stress is detrimental to body and mind. New scientific research by two major universities indicates the brain of believers in a Higher Being, do better in learning than disbelief. Wow!
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New Scientific research: Believers Make Less Errors
New Scientific Research on Benefits of Belief in a Deity?
Let's get on the same footing - whether the reader is personally a believer
or not - this serious research authored by Professor Michael Inzlicht at the University of Toronto, has something important to teach us about our brain.
The research appears in the journal Psychological Science, March 2009.
It is collaboration between University of Toronto and York University, both in
Canada.
Belief in God Can Help Block Anxiety and Minimizes Stress
There are distinctive differences in brain function between believers and non-believers.
Two separate studies with participants hooked up to electrodes measuring
their brain activity - fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) - clearly
indicate weak activity in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) by Believers.
So What
The ACC causes behavior modification by signaling when more attention and
control are required. Huh? When we make a mistake, an error in spelling,
grammar or comprehension, our brain becomes agitated and an alarm goes
off in our brain.
This distress (anxiety, worry, and fear) gets us to pay attention in learning.
Imagine! - the stronger their level of commitment and belief in a Deity,
the less mistakes they made, and less their ACC fired - compared to non-
believers. Weird? Fact.
One-more-once, our ACC (Anterior Cingulate Cortex) fires like crazy when
we confront Uncertainty, Mistakes, or Opposition. There is a scientifically
measurable difference in the activation of ACC between Believers and Non-
believers to the same errors, mistakes, over uncertainties.
The believers were not necessarily church goers, the key element was a
belief system that accepted a personal Deity. They just did not get stressed
out by their own error experiences.
Gallup Poll
In the U.S. belief in God is down from 86% in 1999, to 78% in 2008.
The Gallup Poll, Values and Beliefs department, offered three choices:
a) Belief in God
b) Belief in a Universal Spirit/Higher Power
c) Don't believe in either.
This is the fourth polling on this subject, the last occurring May 8-11,
2008.
Calming Effect
The scientists conclude: religious belief has a calming effect on its adherents.
The make fewer mistakes, plus they feel less anxiety and avoid stress after making
an error. Facing the unknown has less of a hold on believers.
But...
Too much (chronic) overactive stress causes Analysis-Paralysis, and shuts down logical reasoning. But, we want to be alert, aware, and realize when we make
a mistake in order to correct it.
If you and I do not experience some level of anxiety when we make a mistake,
what makes us improve and change for the better and avoid the same error in the
future?
Endwords
Stress is divided into Chronic Stress with its negative effects on body and mind,
and Eustress, an excitement that permits a level of activity called In-The-Flow
or Peak Performance. Actors desire Eustress before a show.
Finally, we suggest self-improvement to be more competitive in school and career.
Would you obtain more promotions if you could read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers could hardly finish one?
Speed Reading is your secret weapon.
See ya,
copyright © 2009, H. Bernard Wechsler.
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