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Why religious people are 'nicer'
October 3, 2008
In one experiment, volunteers who had been told that a dead student's ghost had been seen in the experiment room cheated less on a test than those who had not.
Children who believed that a fictional character called Princess Alice was watching them were less likely to disobey their instructions.
Image: Devotees pray at the feet of the 58.8 foot monolith of Gomateshwara on the Vindhyagiri hill in Shravanabelagola near Bengaluru in Karnataka.
Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
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