Making Secular and Religious Attributions: The Availability Hypothesis Revisited.
This experiment tested several hypotheses based on the "availability hypothesis" (Spilka et al. 1985), which identifies conditions that impel people to make religious rather than secular attributions. A total of 202 subjects who differed in their adherence to the precepts of conservative Christianit...
| Published in: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 162 - 172 |
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