http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Belief in God or other higher powers may be crucially linked to humans' cognitive ability to infer other peoples' mental states, called "theory of mind" or "mentalizing," according to research published May 30 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-belief-god-ability-mentalize.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 May 2012 17:00:04 EST news257609928 A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-analytic-decrease-religious-belief.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:00:01 EST news254665532 New research suggests that when non-religious people think about their own death they become more consciously skeptical about religion, but unconsciously grow more receptive to religious belief. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-death-anxiety-atheists-unconscious-belief.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:05:59 EST news252579951 or inactions? This was the key question behind recent studies led by Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-protest-god-perspectives-cwru-psychology.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:00:02 EST news251977686 As you are weighing whether or not to go to church services this Christmas, consider this: Does a belief in God confer any health benefits? With the help of a large Norwegian longitudinal health study called HUNT, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) were able to find a clear relationship between time spent in church and lower blood pressure in both women and men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-beliefs-hypertension.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:59:20 EST news244146925 Being reminded of the concept of God can decrease people's motivation to pursue personal goals but can help them resist temptation, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-belief-god-ways.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:07:05 EST news238939614 Intuition may lead people toward a belief in the divine and help explain why some people have more faith in God than others, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-intuitive-belief-god.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:26:46 EST news235740388 Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have found that those who believe in a benevolent God tend to worry less and be more tolerant of life's uncertainties than those who believe in an indifferent or punishing God. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-religious-beliefs-impact.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:07:10 EST news231732392