{"id":611,"date":"2012-05-21T12:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/?p=611"},"modified":"2013-08-20T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:27:06","slug":"there%e2%80%99s-science-behind-the-seven-deadly-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/2012\/05\/21\/there%e2%80%99s-science-behind-the-seven-deadly-sins\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s science behind the seven deadly sins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us don&#8217;t go around obsessing about the Seven Deadly Sins\u2014most of us probably couldn\u2019t even name them\u2014but the transgressions defined during early Christian times still cross our consciousness on a regular basis. Who hasn&#8217;t worried about eating too much or been distressed by someone else&#8217;s anger?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, these \u201csins\u201d are often the subjects of scientific study, albeit indirectly. Researchers gathered at the MIT Museum last month to describe work they&#8217;ve conducted relevant to the deadly seven, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. The point of their assembly: to share some ways in which research can provide insight into these darker sides of life\u2014and even, in some cases, hold out possibilities for redemption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourtown\/cambridge\/articles\/2012\/05\/21\/theres_science_behind_the_seven_deadly_sins\/\">Read the\u00a0full article on boston.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>boston.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}