Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

2017/08/07 by Will M. Gervais, Dimitris Xygalatas, Ryan T. McKay +13 · 3 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Atheism #Cultural Differences and Values #Distrust #Epistemology #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Immorality #Law #Morality #Philosophy #Political science #Prejudice (legal term) #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0151

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Citations

• The weirdest people in the world?
• Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: The evolution of religious behavior
• Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment.
• Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

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