Beliefs About Religious and Scientific Entities Among Parents and Children in Iran

Autor:	Ayse Payir, Telli Davoodi, Paul L. Harris, Faezeh Abedi, Yixin Kelly Cui, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Maryam Jamshidi-Sianaki
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Clinical Psychology Science religion Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Soul Psychology Social psychology Unobservable 050105 experimental psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10:847-855
ISSN:	1948-5514 1948-5506
DOI:	10.1177/1948550618806057
Popis:	Previous research has shown that children and adults express more confidence in the existence of unobservable scientific (e.g., germs), as compared to religious, phenomena (e.g., the soul). We asked if the same pattern would emerge among parents ( N = 77) and children ( N = 85) in Iran, a country with widespread commitment to religious values and beliefs. Parents expressed confidence in the existence of various scientific and religious phenomena but were more confident that scientific phenomena exist. Moreover, even though Iranian parents expressed a high valuation of both science and religion, their valuation of science was higher than that of religion. Like their parents, older children also expressed greater confidence in the existence of scientific, as compared to religious, phenomena. We conclude that with age, the kind of discourse children are exposed to elicits more confidence in the existence of scientific phenomena even in a religious society.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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