%0 Journal Article
%T The Nature‐Nurture Debate Is Over, and Both Sides Lost! Implications for Understanding Gender Differences in Religiosity
%J Journal for the scientific study of religion
%D 2009
%A Bradshaw, Matt
%A Ellison, Christopher G.
%V 48
%N 2
%P 241-251
%X In the debate about biological dispositions or differential sex-role socialization, too much emphasis is given to an either- or dichotomy. We argue that the higher religiosity of women is likely the product of both biological and environmental influences by discussing: (1) the fallacy of nature “versus” nurture; (2) biological influences on religious outcomes; (3) biological influences on the predictors of religious involvement; (4) causality and confounding in social science; and (5) interdisciplinary models of biology-environment interplay.<p />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0021-8294
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01443.x