• DOI:10.1038/s41562-017-0151
Corpus ID: 45851307

Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

@article{Gervais2017GlobalEO,
  title={Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists},
  author={W. Gervais and D. Xygalatas and R. Mckay and M. Elk and Emma E Buchtel and M. Aveyard and Sarah R. Schiavone and Ilan Dar-Nimrod and Annika M. Svedholm-H{\"a}kkinen and T. Riekki and E. Klocov{\'a} and J. E. Ramsay and J. Bulbulia},
  journal={Nature Human Behaviour},
  year={2017},
  volume={1}
}

W. Gervais, D. Xygalatas, +10 authors J. Bulbulia

Published 2017

Psychology

Nature Human Behaviour

Mounting evidence supports long-standing claims that religions can extend cooperative networks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 . However, religious prosociality may have a strongly parochial component5 . Moreover, aspects of religion may promote or exacerbate conflict with those outside a given religious group, promoting regional violence 10 , intergroup conflict 11 and tacit prejudice against non-believers 12,13 . Anti-atheist prejudice—a growing concern in increasingly secular societies 14 —affects… CONTINUE READING

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