Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 3 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 2 failed, 1 mixed. The earliest on record is from 2015.
Replications
- Revisiting the Relationship between Individual Differences in Analytic Thinking and Religious Belief: Evidence That Measurement Order Moderates Their Inverse Correlation, Finley et al. (2015). PLOS ONE. Outcome recorded: mixed.
When religious belief is measured before analytic thinking, however, the negative relationship is reduced to non-significance, suggesting that the link between analytic thought and religious belief is more tenuous than previously reported.
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper - Direct replication of Gervais & Norenzayan (2012): No evidence that analytic thinking decreases religious belief, Sanchez et al. (2017). PLOS ONE. Outcome recorded: failed.
We observed little to no effect of the experimental manipulation on religious belief (d = 0.07 in the wrong direction, 95% CI[-0.12, 0.25], N = 941). The original finding does not seem to provide reli- able or valid evidence that analytic thinking causes a decrease in religious belief.
Outcome read from the abstract. View paper - Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015, Camerer et al. (2018). Nature Human Behaviour. Outcome recorded: failed.
Despite high-power and careful adherence to the original study design with feedback from the original authors, we did not observe an effect consistent with the original study
Outcome read from report p. 4. View paper
Cite this record
Gervais, W. M., & Norenzayan, A. (2012). Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief. Science, 336(6080), 493–496. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215647
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