In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call psychologist Deborah Tyler writes about some recent research done at UNC, where students were told to imagine and then write about incest with a family member and also that the family member had been involved in a serious car accident. The purpose of the experiment was to see if, as the researchers supposed, religiously-minded students were more inclined to exhibit “thought-action fusion” than non-religious students. Dr. Tyler explains her reasons for strongly disapproving of the project.