Younger Americans are more likely to express belief in witchcraft and luck, as our new research shows. As sociologists who research the social dynamics of religion in the United States, we conducted a ...

Most of us have core beliefs that we may or may not state aloud. It isn’t unusual to state them clearly as we understand them. Some belief systems formulate credal statements as a matter of ...

The familiar narrative that colleges are fueling a growing divide in political beliefs is not backed up by the data. But ...

From an evolutionary perspective, forming opinions can be viewed as the task of specialized brain regions. These mental structures evolved to address recurrent problems our ancestors encountered. For ...