Why Do People Have Faith?

Researchers have started to examine whether religion gives its believers benefit in difficult situations. Researchers applied electrical stimuli the back of the participants hand. While we inflicted the pain, participants were looking at two different types of images. One was an image of the virgin mary, and the other image was also an image of a young lady, but without a religious connotation. The idea that feelings of safety had helped roman catholic george to withstand moderately high electric currents is backed up by psychologist miguel fariash.