Snipped from NewScientist.com.

Great, more evidence to show why religion creates a more incompetent world. Recent studies are showing that the deeply religious show less activity in a part of the brain that is “linked to anxiety when erring on a simple test.” Well that is what we need more of, people that have less inherent feedback about being wrong because god’s got their back. This anxiety about being wrong makes us want to be right, an important thing in real world functioning. If all were deeply religious, and no one cared about being wrong, this world would be an absolute mess.

I say this makes complete sense of how ex-president Bush could go on even though his Middle Eastern policy was shit. His religion released him from the need to second guess or rethink his position. Great!

Here is a small portion of the article:

If the deeply devout seem less self-doubting than others, perhaps it’s because religion helps them shrug off mistakes. So say researchers who found religious people exhibit lower activity than non-believers in a brain region linked to anxiety when erring on a simple test.

“Religion offers an interpretative framework to understand the world. It lets you know when to act, how to act, and what to do in specific situation,” says

Michael Inzlicht, a neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, who led the new study. “It provides a kind of blueprint on how to interact with the world.”

Religion – and perhaps other strongly held belief systems – buffer against second-guessing decisions, he says.

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