Direct replication of Gervais & Norenzayan (2012): No evidence that analytic thinking decreases religious belief | Zendy

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Direct replication of Gervais & Norenzayan (2012): No evidence that analytic thinking decreases religious belief

Author(s) -

Clinton Sanchez,

Brian A. Sundermeier,

Kenneth Gray,

Robert CalinJageman

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

plos one

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99

H-Index - 332

ISSN - 1932-6203

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0172636

Subject(s) - religious belief , replication (statistics) , epistemology , psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , philosophy , biology , virology

Gervais & Norenzayan (2012) reported in Science a series of 4 experiments in which manipulations intended to foster analytic thinking decreased religious belief. We conducted a precise, large, multi-site pre-registered replication of one of these experiments. We observed little to no effect of the experimental manipulation on religious belief ( d = 0.07 in the wrong direction, 95% CI[-0.12, 0.25], N = 941). The original finding does not seem to provide reliable or valid evidence that analytic thinking causes a decrease in religious belief.

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