Not all skepticism is equal: Exploring the ideological antecedents of science acceptance and rejection

BT Rutjens, RM Sutton… - Personality and Social …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Many topics that scientists investigate speak to people's ideological worldviews. We report
three studies—including an analysis of large-scale survey data—in which we systematically …

Trust in God and/or Science? Sociodemographic Differences in the Effects of Beliefs in an Engaged God and Mistrust of the COVID-19 Vaccine

L Upenieks, J Ford-Robertson… - Journal of Religion and …, 2022 - Springer
At present, COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in the USA, but large proportions of the
American populace remain unvaccinated. One possible source of COVID-19 vaccine …

Oh, the things you don't know: Awe promotes awareness of knowledge gaps and science interest

J McPhetres - Cognition and Emotion, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Awe is described as an a “epistemic emotion” because it is hypothesised to make gaps in
one's knowledge salient. However, no empirical evidence for this yet exists. Awe is also …

Longtime nemeses or cordial allies? How individuals mentally relate science and religion.

RA Zein, MS Altenmüller, M Gollwitzer - Psychological Review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Science and religion are influential social forces, and their interplay has been subject to
many public and scholarly debates. The present article addresses how people mentally …

Suicide literacy mediates the path from religiosity to suicide stigma among Muslim community adults: Cross-sectional data from four Arab countries

F Fekih-Romdhane, S Daher-Nashif… - … Journal of Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The majority of research attention has been devoted to the link between
religiosity and suicide risk, and a considerable amount of studies has been carried out on …

Religious Americans have less positive attitudes toward science, but this does not extend to other cultures

J McPhetres, J Jong… - Social Psychological and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
It is commonly claimed that science and religion are logically and psychologically at odds
with one another. However, previous studies have mainly examined American samples; …

Who supports science-related populism? A nationally representative survey on the prevalence and explanatory factors of populist attitudes toward science in …

NG Mede, MS Schäfer, J Metag, K Klinger - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Science and its epistemology have been challenged by science-related populism—a variant
of populism suggesting that a virtuous “ordinary people,” and not allegedly corrupt academic …

Faith and science mindsets as predictors of COVID-19 concern: A three-wave longitudinal study

KA Johnson, AN Baraldi, JW Moon, MA Okun… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic allowed for a naturalistic, longitudinal investigation of the
relationship between faith and science mindsets and concern about COVID-19. Our goal …

Analytic thinking, religiosity, and defensiveness against secularism: Absence of causality.

RAM Villanueva, ZJ Chen, Y Huang - Psychology of Religion and …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This study examined the negative associations between religiosity and analytic thinking and
defensiveness against secularism as a potential explanation. In 14 experimental studies …

Religious Dialogue and Astronomy from the Perspective of Indonesian Muslim Scholars

MA Royyani, M Kibtyah, A Adeni… - … dan Hukum Islam, 2023 - jurnal.ar-raniry.ac.id
Dialogue between religion and science is a necessity, because both of them can mutually
reinforce the sources of Islamic law. The astronomical approach in the study of hadith makes …