Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Reminders of secular authority reduce believers' distrust of atheists

The results of this new series of experiments are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Distrust among believers declined when people were reminded that God isn't the only authority that keeps people in line--the government is, too.

MORE: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-secular-authority-believers-distrust-atheists.html