Your Childhood Friends Predict Your Adult Personality
- Friends and Relationships, Mind & Brain, Personality and Spirituality
- October 14, 2012
Exploring the scientific background of spiritual claims. Science and spirituality are two forces that seem to counteract each other. While science focuses on the natural world, spirituality connects us to the supernatural (or something bigger than ourselves). While science seeks the origin of species, spirituality may give direction in life. So what is the connection?
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