On the belief in God : Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control

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The Beauty of Boundaries: When and Why We Seek Structure in Consumption (2012, background): “…Aaron Kay and colleagues have demonstrated that threats to personal control enhance individuals‘ beliefs in a controlling God (Kay et al. 2008; Laurin, Kay, and Moscovitch 2008) and that instigating thoughts of randomness increases support for supernatural sources of control, such as God or…”
Compensatory Control (2009, background): “In addition, the role of anxiety in compensatory control was assessed in a study by Laurin et al. (2008) in which participants visualized an anxiety-provoking scenario (someone attacks you while walking home) either in the context of a manipulation of low personal control or high personal control,…”
The Relevance of Control Beliefs for Health and Aging (2011, background): “They can be modified using different procedures such as presenting participants with scenarios in which they do or do not have control over the outcome (Laurin et al., 2008), asking them to recall recent events over which they did or did not have control (Kay et al.”