<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-articleMeta gmail-ja" style="margin-top:0px"><div class="gmail-hlFld-Title" style="line-height:1.5;font-weight:700"><div class="gmail-publicationContentTitle" style="margin-bottom:0px;width:727.65px"><h1 style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-weight:700;margin:0px;font-size:19px;padding:0px;line-height:24px">My suspicion regarding Spike's statement was correct.  bill w</h1><h1 style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-weight:700;margin:0px;font-size:19px;padding:0px;line-height:24px"><br></h1><h1 style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-weight:700;margin:0px;font-size:19px;padding:0px;line-height:24px">The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity</h1></div><div class="gmail-publicationContentSubTitle"><h1 style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-weight:400;margin:0px;font-size:18px;padding:0px;font-style:italic">A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations</h1></div></div><div class="gmail-copyrightStatement"></div><div class="gmail-articleMetaDrop gmail-publicationContentDropZone" style="margin-bottom:7px;margin-top:2px;display:block"></div><div class="gmail-publicationContentAuthors" style="margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-author-container gmail-js__articleAuthorContainer"><div class="gmail-authors"><div class="gmail-hlFld-ContribAuthor"><span class="gmail-contribDegrees" style="padding-right:0px"><a class="entryAuthor" href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1088868313497266?journalCode=psra" style="color:rgb(0,106,204);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px">Miron Zuckerman</a>,<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-contribDegrees" style="padding-right:0px"><a class="entryAuthor" href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1088868313497266?journalCode=psra" style="color:rgb(0,106,204);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px">Jordan Silberman</a>,<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-contribDegrees" style="padding-right:0px"><a class="entryAuthor" href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1088868313497266?journalCode=psra" style="color:rgb(0,106,204);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px">Judith A. Hall</a>,</span></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail-publicationContentEpubDate gmail-dates" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:10px"><b style="font-weight:400">First Published<span> </span></b>August 6, 2013<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-ArticleType" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><span>Research Article</span><span> </span></span><span class="gmail-crossMark" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin-left:5px;font-size:14px"><a id="gmail-crossMark" href="https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog?doi=10.1177%2F1088868313497266&domain=journals.sagepub.com&uri_scheme=http%3A&cm_version=v2.0" style="color:rgb(0,106,204);text-decoration:none"><img src="http://journals.sagepub.com/templates/jsp/images/CROSSMARK_Color_horizontal.svg" width="100" style="border: 0px; max-width: none; height: auto; margin-left: 10px;"></a></span><div class="gmail-articleMetaDrop gmail-publicationContentDropZone gmail-publicationContentDropZone1" style="margin-bottom:7px;margin-top:2px;display:block"><div class="gmail-widget gmail-doiWidget gmail-none gmail-widget-none gmail-widget-compact-all" id="gmail-baf67d2a-cf2e-44ec-828e-b26648ddce88" style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-wrapped" style="float:none;margin-left:0px"><div class="gmail-widget-body gmail-body gmail-body-none gmail-body-compact-all" style="padding:0px;text-align:inherit"><div class="gmail-doiWidgetContainer" style="margin-top:2px"><span class="gmail-doiWidgetLabel"></span><a class="gmail-doiWidgetLink" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1088868313497266" style="color:rgb(0,106,204);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px">https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868313497266</a></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-widget gmail-layout-one-column gmail-none gmail-widget-none gmail-widget-compact-all" id="gmail-80078b98-037a-4dab-b149-628ef0ecefc6" style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-wrapped" style="float:none;margin-left:0px"><div class="gmail-widget-body gmail-body gmail-body-none gmail-body-compact-all" style="padding:0px;text-align:inherit"><div class="gmail-pb-columns gmail-row-fluid" style="display:block;width:727.65px;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-width_1_1" style="display:inline;float:left;width:727.65px;margin:0px;min-height:1px"><div><div class="gmail-widget gmail-layout-inline-content gmail-none gmail-badgeBar gmail-widget-none gmail-widget-compact-all" id="gmail-de1d8314-cfbd-4c21-ae0c-fd75561d30c2" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)"><div class="gmail-wrapped" style="float:none;margin-left:0px"><div class="gmail-widget-body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ed for religious beliefs and practices.</p></div></div></article></div></div></div></article></div><br></div></div>