Honesty when lighting votive candles in church: another look.
An informal 3-yr. follow-up enquiry of a prior study suggested that the use of electrical, rather than wax, candles seemingly is not a variable relevant to peoples' behavior in paying for lighting votive candles in church. Also, the number of people paying apparently continues to decline: now down (from about 30 percent in 2003) to approximately 25 percent.
Trinkaus
John W
JW
Zichlin School of Business, Baruch College.
D008192:Deception; D006801:Humans; D008029:Lighting / Q000191:economics*; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012925:Social Conformity; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends