Belief in all-knowing, punitive gods aided the growth of human societies, study says

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 19:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Belief in moral-watching, all-knowing, punitive gods might have helped human societies grow far beyond small, close-knit groups, a new study shows. Researchers who ran an experiment with a total of 591 people in eight different small-scale societies around the world found that people who believed...

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