It was hypothesized that intrinsic religiousness helps to cope with increased salience of terrorism. Intrinsically religious and non-religious participants were told that it is highly probable or highly improbable, respectively, that terrorist attacks will occur in Germany. High probability of terrorism only negatively affected the mood of non-religious participants but not of intrinsically rel...

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The basic control loop of a robot is as follows: read in sensor data about the environment, perform some calculation, send velocity commands to the robot motors, and repeat. The calculations in between reading sensor data and sending commands to the motors reflect the behavior of the robot that we want. In each loop, we will calculate the new velocity commands with the aim that these new comman...

Although the contribution of immigration and religious switching to the changing religious landscape in Canada seems well established, we lack knowledge on the religious switching of immigrants. In this study we address if and to what extent immigrants to Canada change religion after their arrival. We use data on religious affiliation and other demographic characteristics from the 1981, 1991 an...

An analytic cognitive style denotes a propensity to set aside highly salient intuitions when engaging in problem solving. We assess the hypothesis that an analytic cognitive style is associated with a history of questioning, altering, and rejecting (i.e., unbelieving) supernatural claims, both religious and paranormal. In two studies, we examined associations of God beliefs, religious engagemen...

This document describes some new commands for the picture environment of LATEX. Some of the picture drawing commands of LATEX are very low-level. New higher-level commands are implemented and described here. These commands enhance the graphic capabilities of LATEX and provide a friendlier and more powerful user interface than currently existent. Their implementation has been done with the aim o...

As a theologian working in Western Europe, religious plurality is unavoidable for me. It seems that our context can no longer be identified in terms of secularization. Competing worldviews and complementing religious stories dictate the religious landscape (and increasingly so, due to migration and global communication). The religions present in my country, however, are not monolithic and stabl...