RE: How to Investigate Religious Experiences in Psychiatry

However, 2 important types of research were not discussed. Measuring religion and spirituality through questionnaires is difficult and therefore nonconscious aspects of religion have to be studied as well. For example, Dijksterhuis et al found how feelings of authorship decreased when participants were primed with God, but only among believers. In the future, it might be more reliable to investigate individual differences in religious experiences through a measure that cannot be consciously influenced by study participants.

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