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The Devil's Advocate: Secular Arguments Diminish both Implicit and Explicit Religious Belief

The Devil's Advocate: Secular Arguments Diminish both Implicit and Explicit Religious Belief AbstractThe religion-science debate has heated up in recent years, with polemicalarguments on both side decrying the other. Given that the dominant view isof religiousness as a relatively fixed personality trait, all of this furorseems excessive. Interested in just how malleable religiousness is, weexposed half of our participants to an argument against the existence of Godby Richard Dawkins. Those exposed to Dawkins' arguments showed lowerself-reported religiousness, as well as less implicit association betweenreligion and truth. These results demonstrate the flexibility of traitreligiousness. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cognition and Culture Brill

The Devil's Advocate: Secular Arguments Diminish both Implicit and Explicit Religious Belief

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1567-7095
eISSN
1568-5373
DOI
10.1163/156853708X358245
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Abstract

AbstractThe religion-science debate has heated up in recent years, with polemicalarguments on both side decrying the other. Given that the dominant view isof religiousness as a relatively fixed personality trait, all of this furorseems excessive. Interested in just how malleable religiousness is, weexposed half of our participants to an argument against the existence of Godby Richard Dawkins. Those exposed to Dawkins' arguments showed lowerself-reported religiousness, as well as less implicit association betweenreligion and truth. These results demonstrate the flexibility of traitreligiousness.

Journal

Journal of Cognition and CultureBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: ATHEISM; RELIGIOUSNESS; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATIONS

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