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DavidDvorkin

(19,987 posts)
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 12:36 PM Dec 2019

Prayers can crowd out donations for disaster victims [View all]

A new study finds that people who prayed for hurricane victims before donating gave less than they would have otherwise: Because those who prayed believed that prayers improved the victims' well-being, they donated less.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191126092720.htm
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