According to a new study, people who think evolution is a bunch of hogwash are more likely to be bigoted.
In a new interview with PsyPost, University of Massachusetts at Amherst researcher Stylianos Syropoulos discusses the implications of a new study his team published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In the United States, as well as in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, a low threshold of belief in the theory of evolution correlated with higher prejudices within one's own group.
For majority and minority groups, our findings were consistent across cultural, religious, and national contexts.
The effect appears to be strong.
In Israel, they found that people with a higher belief in evolution were more likely to support peace.
The researchers' findings are correlational, which means that they are not suggesting that there is disbelief in evolution, but rather that there is a correlation that has gone unexplored.
The relationship between disbelief in evolution and greater rates of bigotry remained significant after adjusting for key psychological variables.
The researchers noted in their statement that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has been used as a vehicle for racism in the past.
It was exciting for us to show that this actually is not, because there have been theoretical accounts that predict the opposite of what we found.
People who reject the theory of human evolution have more bigoted attitudes.
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Scientists are studying the psychology of jerks.
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