@article{ref1,
title="Religion Replenishes Self-Control",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2012",
author="Rounding, Kevin and Lee, Albert and Jacobson, Jill A. and Ji, Li-Jun",
volume="23",
number="6",
pages="635-642",
abstract="Researchers have proposed that the emergence of religion was a cultural adaptation necessary for promoting self-control. Self-control, in turn, may serve as a psychological pillar supporting a myriad of adaptive psychological and behavioral tendencies. If this proposal is true, then subtle reminders of religious concepts should result in higher levels of self-control. In a series of four experiments, we consistently found that when religious themes were made implicitly salient, people exercised greater self-control, which, in turn, augmented their ability to make decisions in a number of behavioral domains that are theoretically relevant to both major religions and humans' evolutionary success. Furthermore, when self-control resources were minimized, making it difficult for people to exercise restraint on future unrelated self-control tasks, we found that implicit reminders of religious concepts refueled people's ability to exercise self-control. Moreover, compared with morality- or death-related concepts, religion had a unique influence on self-control.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797611431987",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611431987"
}