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No, the study I saw had nothing to do with coercion. They simply subjected people to pain and measured who could handle it the longest before crying "Uncle!"
I'm going to have to call bullshit on any study that purports to show that. What kind of sample size were they working with? How diverse was the sample set? Should the fact that I, as a lifelong atheist have repeatedly amazed doctors with my apparently freakish ability to withstand pain, suggest that perhaps it just depends on the person and not whatever faith they have or do not have? I really seriously doubt they had a large enough number of test subjects to conclude there is a trend among Christians to endure more pain as compared to atheists (even ignoring the fact that I'm sure there's ethics rules that prevent them from subjecting subjects to truly high amounts of pain, and if it's just minor electric shocks they're subjecting people too I don't think that makes for an experiment one can draw any real conclusions from).
How can you tell all of that? I can't even find mention of it on Google, so I certainly didn't provide you with a link for a proper citation.