Individual Differences in Existential Orientation: Empathizing and Systemizing Explain the Sex Difference in Religious Orientation and Science Acceptance

Abstract On a wide range of measures and across cultures and societies, women tend to be more religious than men. Religious beliefs are associated with evolved social-cognitive mechanisms such as agency detection and theory-of-mind. Women perform better on most of these components of social cognitio...

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Published inArchive for the psychology of religion Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 119 - 146
Main Authors Rosenkranz, Patrick, Charlton, Bruce G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Brill 2013
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