Citation

Uzarevic F, Saroglou V, Pichon I. Basic Appl. Soc. Psychchol. 2020; 42(1): 62-77.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01973533.2019.1689980

PMID

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Abstract

Several people fail to reject opposite ideologies without discriminating against opponents. Do nonbelievers make this distinction? Across two experiments in three cultures (total N = 2064), we investigated participants' willingness to help a religious target involved in religious anti-liberalism (antiabortion), activism (promoting Christian ideas), or devotion (religious service); or a neutral cause (copying syllabus or visiting family). In comparison to a control condition (neutral target, neutral cause), nonbelievers-except French atheists, to some extent-made this distinction: they were unwilling to help the religious target when acting for any of the three religious causes, but not when acting for a neutral cause. Groups with opposite ideologies, here believers and nonbelievers, seem both similar and qualitatively dissimilar in their outgroup attitudes.

Language: en