Deus or Darwin: Randomness and belief in theories about the origin of life

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1078-1080

  Rutjens, Bastiaan T ^a   van der Pligt, Joop ^a   van Harreveld, Frenk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensatory control; Control motivation; Order; Religion; Science; Worldviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956614736     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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