Honesty when lighting votive candles in church: another look

Psychol Rep. 2006 Oct;99(2):494-5. doi: 10.2466/pr0.99.2.494-495.

Abstract

An informal 3-yr. follow-up enquiry of a prior study suggested that the use of electrical, rather than wax, candles seemingly is not a variable relevant to peoples' behavior in paying for lighting votive candles in church. Also, the number of people paying apparently continues to decline: now down (from about 30 percent in 2003) to approximately 25 percent.

MeSH terms

  • Deception*
  • Humans
  • Lighting / economics*
  • Religion and Psychology*
  • Religion*
  • Social Conformity*
  • Urban Population / statistics & numerical data*
  • Urban Population / trends