TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Witnessing and Experiencing Miraculous Healings and Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide
JO  - Review of religious research
A1  - Sharp, S.
SP  - 157
EP  - 167
VL  - 61
IS  - 2
N2  - Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, I argue that the religious experiences of witnessing and/or experiencing a miraculous physical healing event will be negatively associated with attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide. I evaluate this argument using data from the 2007 wave of the Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1598). I find that those who have witnessed and/or experienced a miraculous physical healing have more negative attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide than those who have not witnessed and/or experienced such an event, even when controlling for religiosity, sociodemographic, and personality factors. These results show that researchers should consider if and how religious experiences influence people's attitudes. © 2019, Religious Research Association, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0034-673X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13644-019-00363-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -