Washington, Feb 20: New research suggests that when we deal with difficult decisions in our lives, we tend to blame it on our fate.
"Fate is a ubiquitous supernatural belief, spanning time and place," researchers Aaron Kay, Simone Tang, and Steven Shepherd of Duke University, wrote.
"It exerts a range of positive and negative effects on health, coping, and both action and inaction," they said.
Kay, Tang, and Shepherd hypothesized that people may invoke fate as a way of assuaging their own stress and fears - a way of saying "It's out of my hands now, there's nothing I can do."
"Belief in fate, defined as the belief that whatever happens was supposed to happen and that outcomes are ultimately predetermined,.
"Fate is a ubiquitous supernatural belief, spanning time and place," researchers Aaron Kay, Simone Tang, and Steven Shepherd of Duke University, wrote.
"It exerts a range of positive and negative effects on health, coping, and both action and inaction," they said.
Kay, Tang, and Shepherd hypothesized that people may invoke fate as a way of assuaging their own stress and fears - a way of saying "It's out of my hands now, there's nothing I can do."
"Belief in fate, defined as the belief that whatever happens was supposed to happen and that outcomes are ultimately predetermined,.
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