Marco Cinnirella

TL;DR: Qualitative thematic analysis of open-ended interview responses revealed that the degree to which religious coping strategies were perceived to be effective in the face of depressive and schizophrenic symptoms, varied across the groups, with prayer being perceived as particularly effective among Afro-Caribbean Christian and Pakistani Muslim groups.

TL;DR: This study explores how a group of young British Muslim gay men of Pakistani background in non-gay affirmative religious contexts understood and defined their sexual, religious, and ethnic identities, focusing upon the negotiation and construction of these identities and particularly upon strategies employed for coping with identity threat.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire study of national and European identities in the UK and Italy, as manifested by university students, was conducted, and the authors found that British respondents often perceive European integration as a threat to British identity.

TL;DR: In this article, four religious-cultural groups in the UK were examined, using a short measure of religious activity developed to enable measurement comparable between different religious groups, and gender differences were examined among volunteers who were self-defined as Christian (n =230), Hindu, Jewish and Muslim.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationship between the need for cognitive closure (NFCC), levels of belief in real world conspiracy theories, and the attribution of conspiracy theories to explain events revealed that evidence for and against conspiracy theories had an influence on attributions of the likelihood of a conspiracy to explain a novel event.