Analytic atheism: a cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon?
Gervais, Will M., van Elk, Michiel, Xygalatas, Dimitris, McKay, Ryan T., Aveyard, Mark, Buchtel, Emma T., Dar-Nimrod, Ilan, Kundtová Klocová, Eva, Ramsay, Jonathan, Riekki, Tapani, Svedholm-Häkkinen, Annika M., and Bulbulia, Joseph (2018) Analytic atheism: a cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? Judgment and Decision Making, 13 (3). pp. 268-274.
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Abstract
Religious belief is a topic of longstanding interest to psychological science, but the psychology of religious disbelief is a relative newcomer. One prominently discussed model is analytic atheism, wherein cognitive reflection, as measured with the Cognitive Reflection Test, overrides religious intuitions and instruction. Consistent with this model, performance-based measures of cognitive reflection predict religious disbelief in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, & Democratic) samples. However, the generality of analytic atheism remains unknown. Drawing on a large global sample (N = 3461) from 13 religiously, demographically, and culturally diverse societies, we find that analytic atheism as usually assessed is in fact quite fickle cross-culturally, appearing robustly only in aggregate analyses and in three individual countries. The results provide additional evidence for culture’s effects on core beliefs.
Item ID: | 53901 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 1930-2975 |
Additional Information: | Copyright: © 2018. The authors license this article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
Funders: | Templeton Foundation (TF), Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ), ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (DOSR) |
Projects and Grants: | TF 48275, RSNZ Marsden Grant VUW1321, TF 52257, DOSR grant 016.135.135 |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2018 02:43 |
FoR Codes: | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520504 Psychology of religion @ 100% |
SEO Codes: | 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences @ 100% |
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