Religion Arising as a Dating Strategy

Posted on January 15, 2010
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Interesting study with implications for how religion arose evolutionarily. “Men and women shown dating profiles of attractive members of the same sex will describe themselves as more religious than people who don’t feel as if they have to compete in the attractiveness stakes. Meanwhile, another study finds that thoughts of randomness push people toward God – but only if they can’t attribute feelings of stress to some easily defined external factor.”