MindBlog (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Here is a curious piece by John Tierney noting the work of Michael McCullouch, who provides evidence that religiosity correlates with higher self-control among adults. “Brain-scan studies have shown that when people pray or meditate, there’s a lot of activity in two parts of brain that are important for self-regulation and control of attention and emotion,” he said. “The rituals that religions have...
The Speculist (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
John Tierney writes in his New York Times column: If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, “Start going to church”? This is an awkward question for...
IdeaFestival (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
According to mounting data, the religiously faithful take more satisfaction from marriage and life in general. To that list of community benefits, one might add self-control, according to New York Times science reporter John Tierney, who references research by University...
The Religion Virus (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Does religion give believers more self control? That's what the authors of a scientific survey conclude , based on a survey of 30 years of scientific articles. According to John Tierney's blog on the New York Times, Michael McCullough and Brian Willoughby (University of Miami) surveyed 80 years of scientific literature and found that, "... devoutly religious people tend to do better in school, live...
witches and scientists (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It John Tierney reports today in the Science section of the NYTimes findings by a psychologist that religious people demonstrate more self control that than the general population. Dr. Michael McCullough (of the University of Miami) and a fellow researcher have surveyed eighty years of research and found: ...As early as the 1920s, researchers
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
JOHN TIERNEY: “If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, ‘Start going to church’?”
Telic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
John Tierney contemplates New Year's resolutions with a new research review from psychologists at the University of Miami spanning 8 decades in his New York Times article today, For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It Some choice excerpts: His [Michael McCullough's] professional interest arose from a desire to understand why religion evolved and why it seems to [...]
My agnostic views & images I like (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Image via Wikipedia I guess that I’m like John Tierney, who writes in the Science section of NY Times, a heathen. I certainly believe that I am an agnostic about belief in religion, the personal God and about the power of faith. I think that those human values can be destructive and lead to all kinds mayhem [...]
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
NYTimes science blogger John Tierney: If I'm serious about keeping my New Year's resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, "Start going to church"? This is an awkward question for a heathen to contemplate,...
PetesWorld - PeeDub.com (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Findings - For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It - NYTimes.com : "If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, “Start going to church”?"
Yikes! (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Try getting religious about it! Self-described heathen John Tierney talks about religion and self-control in a report in The New York Times. If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, “Start going to church”? This is an awkward question for a heathen to contemplate, but I felt obliged to raise it with Michael McCullough after...
Secular Right (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Per John Tierney in the Times, a new review of the literature has “concluded that religious belief and piety promote self-control”, which may help explain why religious belief is often associated with greater success in such goals as personal health and marital stability. Mere going through the motions doesn’t seem to be enough, “Dr. [Michael] [...]
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
Science blogger extraordinaire Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) has called me out. I wrote: Tierney is easily the worst science writer at any major media outlet in the country. Pretty much every energy or climate piece he writes is riddled with errors and far-right ideology, including this one. Lambert writes that he “must, however, disagree with one [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
Tim Lambert blasts a couple of egregious examples of scientifically illiterate writers on science: The down side of the link exchange between ScienceBlogs and the New York Times is that in the side bar there is now a link to John Tierney’s attack on John Holdren, using such stellar authorities as Bjorn Lomborg, Roger Pileke Jr [...]
Ron Hebron (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
The collective wisdom of people who risked their own money beat every pundit on the presidential election. From one of my favorite science journalists - John Tierney at NY Times. Bettors Beat Pundits - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com : We debated the merits of collective wisdom earlier this year, after the bettors in the the Intrade online prediction market wrongly picked Barack Obama to win the New...
