Many people are guided by religious beliefs, but judgments of religiously and secularly
motivated individuals remain unclear. We investigated reasoning about religiously versus�…

Would someone raised without exposure to religious views nonetheless come to believe in
the existence of God, an afterlife, and the intentional creation of humans and other animals�…

Adults conceptualize God as particularly knowledgeable–more knowledgeable than
humans–about moral transgressions. We investigated how younger (4-to 5-year-old) and�…

Is there a sensitive period in childhood and adolescence for acquiring religiosity? Does a
cultural group's familiarity with religious-type representations affect individuals' memory for�…

Highlights•People are more confident of the existence of scientific than religious
entities.•They give similar justification for believing in scientific and religious entities.•Adults�…

While research has shown that religious individuals are perceived as being more moral than
the nonreligious, the present studies suggest that these findings are affected by in‐group�…

Recent research has shown that religious individuals are much more resistant to utilitarian
modes of thinking than their less religious counterparts, but the reason for this is not clear�…

Two experiments demonstrated that religiosity affects the way people resolve moral
dilemmas. Participants were presented a series of immoral actions and were asked to justify�…

When learning about the existence of unobservable scientific phenomena such as germs or
religious phenomena such as God, children are receptive to the testimony of other people�…

Highlights•Social liberalism, reflective thinking, and utilitarian judgments all correlate
positively but negatively with religion.•It is unlikely that these correlations result from the way�…