SIO307: Newly Published Study Shows Atheists are Prejudiced...
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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... AGAINST ANTI GAY ACTIVISTS. Yeah. It's a bad science thingy. But bad science thingies are a bat signal for Dr. Lindsey Osterman, who is here to break down this study for us! What does the study prove? What does it definitely not prove? Find out!
Uzarevic et al. (2021) "Are Atheists Unprejudiced?", Uzarevic et al. (2017) "Are Atheists Undogmatic?", Speed & Brewster (2021) "Christians, but not Atheists, Show High In-Group Favoritism"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 307. I'm Thomas, and that's |
| 0:16.9 | science person of the year. Lindsey Osterman, an award I just invented. Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:22.5 | Do you accept? I know I was spring this time. I have so many people to thank. Mostly you, I think. |
| 0:28.2 | Well, we were off of, I don't know, was that a week? I guess we were off a week. I can't tell. |
| 0:32.8 | It was a year, I think. But we're back, and what are we talking about today? We're talking about an |
| 0:37.8 | article entitled, Our Atheist Unprejudice. Forms of non-belief and prejudice among anti-liberal, |
| 0:44.0 | or toward, excuse me, prejudice toward anti-liberal and mainstream religious groups. I found this, |
| 0:49.2 | I like to stay up on the literature about religiosity and lack thereof and see what the psych |
| 0:55.0 | people are saying about those dimensions. And I found this one, and it seemed very, very interesting. |
| 1:00.0 | So I thought maybe SIO listeners would enjoy it. Yeah, I read the abstract or the title and didn't |
| 1:06.4 | still don't know what it's saying. So that's always a good sign. Is that just me or is it written |
| 1:11.2 | very weirdly? It's not the best writing I've ever seen. Our Atheist Unprejudice. So is that like, |
| 1:19.3 | are they suggesting that the cultural expectation is that they're not, and now they're challenging it? |
| 1:26.4 | Is that what the background of this is? Yes, it is. Yeah, there's a literature, and we'll talk a |
| 1:30.8 | little bit about this, but there's a research literature that has claimed in the past that Atheist, |
| 1:36.8 | or non-religious people in general, are less prejudice than highly religious people. So yeah, |
| 1:41.6 | that's why they framed it that way. Okay. And they seek to perhaps contradict that claim, |
| 1:48.4 | counter that claim. They do. They actually, so the lead author on this study actually has another |
| 1:53.3 | article that was published a couple of years ago that is along a similar theme and could give us |
| 1:58.7 | some insight here. So the title of that article was R-Atheist Undogmatic. Right. And similarly, |
| 2:05.5 | we're seeking to challenge the view that they are. This seems to be coming from people perhaps |
| 2:11.0 | tied to religion and religious institutions, maybe. They seem to be very skeptical of Atheists. |
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