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

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.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2017-02-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0172636PMID 28234942PMCID 5325262
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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