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We examined participants’ (N = 145) beliefs in the power of thought by comparing
their judgments about whether desires would be fulfilled through prayer or through
another petitionary activity--wishing. Three groups of adults (theists, agnostics,
and atheists) read scenarios in which a protagonist desires to assist another person
and either ‘wishes’ or ‘prays to God’ for their desires to be fulfilled. Requests varied by
domain (psychological, biological, physical outcomes) and by plausibility (ordinarily
plausible versus impossible outcomes). Participants reported whether each request
would be fulfilled. Overall, participants judged that requests for plausible phenom-
ena would be fulfilled more often than requests for impossible phenomena. Atheists
were similar to theists and agnostics in belief that wishes would be fulfilled, perhaps
suggesting that all groups appealed somewhat to metaphysical causality. However,
agnostics, and especially atheists, were less likely than theists to report that prayers
would be fulfilled. Engagement in prayer activities was a particularly strong predictor
of participants’ belief in the power of prayer but was unrelated to their belief in the
power of wishing.
Jonathan D. Lane & Francine L. Dolins
Socio-cultural Differences in Judgments about the Power of Though
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