Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon?
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 intu...
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| author | Will M. Gervais Michiel van Elk Dimitris Xygalatas Ryan T. McKay Mark Aveyard Emma E. Buchtel Ilan Dar-Nimrod Eva Kundtová Klocová Jonathan E. Ramsay Tapani Riekki Annika M. Svedholm-Häkkinen Joseph Bulbulia |
| author_facet | Will M. Gervais Michiel van Elk Dimitris Xygalatas Ryan T. McKay Mark Aveyard Emma E. Buchtel Ilan Dar-Nimrod Eva Kundtová Klocová Jonathan E. Ramsay Tapani Riekki Annika M. Svedholm-Häkkinen Joseph Bulbulia |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-453e4cc7f5194a47b701ff509761a39c2023-09-03T14:02:45ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752018-05-011326827410.1017/S1930297500007701Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon?Will M. Gervais0Michiel van Elk1Dimitris Xygalatas2Ryan T. McKay3Mark Aveyard4Emma E. Buchtel5Ilan Dar-Nimrod6Eva Kundtová Klocová7Jonathan E. Ramsay8Tapani Riekki9Annika M. Svedholm-Häkkinen10Joseph Bulbulia11University of Kentucky (USA)University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)University of Connecticut (USA)Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)The University of Sydney (Australia)Masaryk University (Czech Republic)Singapore University of Social Sciences (Singapore)University of Helsinki (Finland)University of Helsinki (Finland)Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)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.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500007701/type/journal_articleatheismcultural learningdual process cognitionreligious cognitionreplicabilityWEIRD peopleculture |
| spellingShingle | Will M. Gervais Michiel van Elk Dimitris Xygalatas Ryan T. McKay Mark Aveyard Emma E. Buchtel Ilan Dar-Nimrod Eva Kundtová Klocová Jonathan E. Ramsay Tapani Riekki Annika M. Svedholm-Häkkinen Joseph Bulbulia Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? Judgment and Decision Making atheism cultural learning dual process cognition religious cognition replicability WEIRD people culture |
| title | Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? |
| title_full | Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? |
| title_fullStr | Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? |
| title_short | Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? |
| title_sort | analytic atheism a cross culturally weak and fickle phenomenon |
| topic | atheism cultural learning dual process cognition religious cognition replicability WEIRD people culture |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500007701/type/journal_article |
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