Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, I argue that the religious experiences of witnessing and/or experiencing a miraculous physical healing event will be negatively associated with attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide. I evaluate this argument using data from the 2007 wave of the Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1598). I find that those who have witnessed and/or experienced a miraculous physical healing have more negative attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide than those who have not witnessed and/or experienced such an event, even when controlling for religiosity, sociodemographic, and personality factors. These results show that researchers should consider if and how religious experiences influence people’s attitudes.
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Sharp, S. (2019). Witnessing and Experiencing Miraculous Healings and Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide. Review of Religious Research, 61(2), 157–167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-019-00363-4
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