ArticleIntegrative psychological & behavioral science2019
God, Germs, and Evolution: Belief in Unobservable Religious and Scientific Entities in the U.S. and China.
Article in Integrative psychological & behavioral science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Adults Show Positive Moral Evaluations of Curiosity About Religion.Social psychological and personality science · 2024Article
- Correspondence in parents' and children's concepts of god: Investigating the role of parental values, religious practices and executive functioning.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2022Article
- Two Concepts of Belief Strength: Epistemic Confidence and Identity Centrality.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Faith and science mindsets as predictors of COVID-19 concern: A three-wave longitudinal study.Journal of experimental social psychology · 2021Article
- To Believe Is Not to Think: A Cross-Cultural Finding.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2021Article
- Never the Twain…Introduction to the Special Issue Psychology of Religion: Dialogues Between Sociocultural and Cognitive Perspectives.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2019Article
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Abstract
Adults in the U.S. and China were asked to make judgments about the existence of a variety of scientific and religious entities, including God, germs, and evolution. Overall, participants expressed more confidence in the existence of scientific as compared to religious entities. This differential confidence in the two domains emerged in China as well as in the U.S. Moreover, it emerged even when participants were questioned about items attracting a lower overall level of consensus. Nevertheless, the religious beliefs of individual participants moderated the degree of differentiation between scientific and religious entities. Adults reporting low levels of religiosity expressed greater belief in the existence of scientific than religious entities but adults reporting high levels of religiosity expressed equivalent levels of belief in the existence of each domain. This pattern emerged in both China and the U.S. Testimony about unobservable phenomena has a similar impact on adults' pattern of beliefs across two historically distinct cultures.
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