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Previous research suggests that religious people are lower in analytical thinking. However, this work has not investigated highly religious people specifically and has used subjective measures of religiosity. Two studies tested the hypotheses that highly religious people would be higher in analytical thinking and that religious knowledge would be positively related to analytical thinking. In Study 1, participants completed a measure of analytical thinking and a Bible knowledge scale(BKS). Study 2 also included measures of superstition and endorsement of pseudo-profound Bull____(PPBS), variables that have been found to be negatively related to analytical thinking and positively related to religiosity, and a measure of verbal ability/intelligence. In Study 1, a sample of highly religious people scored higher in analytical thinking than did a college student sample and the BKS was positively related to analytical thinking. In Study 2, a sample of highly religious people scored higher in analytical thinking and lower in superstition and endorsement of PPBS than did a sample of MTurk participants. The BKS was positively related to analytical thinking and negatively related to superstition and endorsement of PPBS. The positive relationship between the BKS and analytical thinking and the negative relationship between the BKS and endorsement of PPBS were accounted for by verbal ability/intelligence.
Recent research suggests that there is a negative relationship between religiosity (or religiousness) and analytical thinking (Gervais et al., 2018; Pennycook et al., 2016). However, this work has relied on [...]