@article{ref1,
title="Godless by association: deficits in trust mediate antiatheist stigma-by-association",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: applied",
year="2019",
author="Franks, Andrew S. and Scherr, Kyle C. and Gibson, Bryan",
volume="25",
number="2",
pages="303-316",
abstract="In the United States, atheists elicit high levels of sociopolitical rejection that is primarily motivated by a lack of trust. Across three studies, we use evaluative conditioning (EC) as a theoretical framework to evaluate whether these deficits extended to candidates who are not atheists themselves but merely perceived to be associated with atheism. Study 1 found that implicit trust, explicit trust, and voting intentions toward target candidates were all negatively impacted by an EC procedure that paired a candidate's face with words related to atheism. Study 2 found that trust and political support for a Christian candidate was eroded when he expressed proatheist public policy position. In both experiments, trust mediated the effects of atheist associations on voting intentions for religiously affiliated participants. Study 3 found the same moderated-mediation pattern. Religiously affiliated participants who perceived Barack Obama as being more favorable toward atheists were less likely to vote for him, in large part due to a lack of trust. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-898X",
doi="10.1037/xap0000179",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000179"
}