Jared B. Kenworthy’s research is interesting for various reasons. What caught my attention was the following:<\/p>\n
Believers\u00a0perceived\u00a0their own position as being more rational than both the in-group and the out-group. Nonbelievers, by contrast, attributed equivalent amounts of rationality to themselves and to the in-group, both of which exceeded that attributed to the believing out-group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In his research Mr. Kenworthy uses rational reasons and emotionality as opposites to explain why people come to conclusion, where “internal, rational process is seen as positive<\/em>, and an emotional or external origin for an attitude is seen as negative<\/em>.”<\/p>\n
One could slightly overstate this research claiming that for believers, their faith is rational, but the faith of others is not.<\/p>\n
See Explaining the Belief in God for Self, In-Group, and Out-Group Targets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jared B. Kenworthy’s research is interesting for various reasons. What caught my attention was the following: Believers\u00a0perceived\u00a0their own position as being more rational than both the in-group and the out-group. Nonbelievers, by contrast, attributed equivalent amounts of rationality to themselves and to the in-group, both of which exceeded that attributed to the believing out-group. In … Continue reading Explaining the Belief in God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-atheists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}