Rejecting opposite ideologies without discriminating against ideological opponents? Understanding nonbelievers’ outgroup attitudes
(2020) Basic and Applied Social Psychology — Vol. 42, n° 1, p. 62-77 (2020)
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- Several people fail to reject opposite ideologies without discriminating against opponents. Do nonbelievers make this distinction? Across two experiments in three cultures (total N = 2,064), 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.
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Uzarevic, F., Saroglou, V., & Pichon, I. (2020). Rejecting opposite ideologies without discriminating against ideological opponents? Understanding nonbelievers’ outgroup attitudes. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 42(1), 62-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2019.1689980 (Original work published 2020)