Rejecting Opposite Ideologies without Discriminating against Ideological Opponents? Understanding Nonbelievers' Outgroup Attitudes. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Uzarevic, Filip; Saroglou, Vassilis; Pichon, Isabelle
• Is Part Of: Basic and applied social psychology. Volume 42:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 62
• Page End: 77
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Social psychology -- Periodicals; 302.05
• DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2019.1689980
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0197-3533

Abstract

Abstract: Several people fail to reject opposite ideologies without discriminating against opponents. Do nonbelievers make this distinction? Across two experiments in three cultures (total N = 2064), we investigated participants' willingness to help a religious target involved in religious anti-liberalism (antiabortion), activism (promoting Christian ideas), or devotion (religious service); or a neutral cause (copying syllabus or visiting family). In comparison to a control condition (neutral target, neutral cause), nonbelievers–except French atheists, to some extent–made this distinction: they were unwilling to help the religious target when acting for any of the three religious causes, but not when acting for a neutral cause. Groups with opposite ideologies, here believers and nonbelievers, seem both similar and qualitatively dissimilar in their outgroup attitudes.