This is no more effective than prayer which when it does seem to work can be explained away as coincidence.

有时人们自我祈福后有所好转，就认为没有比祈祷更加有效的方法了，而这不过是巧合而已。

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When the devout pray, and their prayers are not answered, they do not take this as evidence which has to be weighed alongside all the other evidence that prayer is effective.

当信徒们祷告，并且当他们的祷告没有获得回应的时候，他们并不会将之同其他一些证据糅合在一起，来证明祷告的效果。

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"The effects we found in these experiments were quite large, which suggests that prayer may really be an effective way to calm anger and aggression, " Bushman said.

我们在实验中发现的影响非常大，这表明祈祷行为对冷却愤怒和攻击倾向也许确实是有效的。

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