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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 37-48Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1088868309353750
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Compensatory control; belief in God; religiosity; external control; uncertainty; system justification
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The authors review experimental evidence that religious conviction can be a defensive source of compensatory control when personal or external sources of control are low. They show evidence that (a) belief in religious deities and secular institutions can serve as external forms of control that can compensate for manipulations that lower personal control and (b) religious conviction can also serve as compensatory personal control after experimental manipulations that lower other forms of personal or external control. The authors review dispositional factors that differentially orient individuals toward external or personal varieties of compensatory control and conclude that compensatory religious conviction can be a flexible source of personal and external control for relief from the anxiety associated with random and uncertain experiences.
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