Humility and harmony: The influence of intellectual humility and religiousness on science-religion views

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113136

Jesse L. Preston , Victoria Hotchin , Natalia Zarzeczna

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Abstract

Views on the relationship between science and religion vary between conflict and compatibility. But compatibility views may be more common for those who are open to alternate viewpoints and who recognize the limits of their knowledge and understanding, characteristic of intellectual humility. Two studies (total N = 978) examined how science-religion attitudes are predicted by individual differences in intellectual humility and religiosity. Compatibility attitudes were strongly predicted by individual religiosity, and intellectual humility predicted greater compatibility beliefs when controlling for religiosity. In mediation analyses, there were negative indirect links between intellectual humility and compatibility views via greater religiosity, but the direct link was positive. This suggests that a positive link between intellectual humility and compatibility beliefs may be suppressed by the strong associations with general religiosity. Overall, these studies show intellectual humility is an important predictor of beliefs about the compatibility of science and religion, but this is entwined with the effects of religiosity.

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谦逊与和谐：知性谦逊与宗教观对科学宗教观的影响

对科学与宗教关系的看法有冲突的，也有相容的。但是，对于那些对不同观点持开放态度的人，以及那些认识到自己的知识和理解的局限性的人来说，兼容性观点可能更常见，这是智力谦逊的特征。两项研究（总N = 978）考察了科学-宗教态度是如何通过智力谦逊和宗教虔诚的个体差异来预测的。个人宗教信仰强烈地预测了兼容态度，而在控制宗教信仰时，智力谦逊预测了更大的兼容信念。在中介分析中，智力谦卑与兼容性观之间存在负向的间接联系，但直接联系是正的。这表明，智力上的谦逊和兼容性信仰之间的积极联系可能会被与一般宗教信仰的强烈联系所抑制。总的来说，这些研究表明，智力上的谦逊是科学与宗教相容信念的重要预测因素，但这与宗教虔诚的影响是交织在一起的。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.