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In reply to the discussion: Religion turns children into assholes [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(102,522 posts)68. That's a major part of the paper - that parental reporting doesn't reflect an objective measure
Across all countries, parents in religious households reported that their children expressed more empathy and sensitivity for justice in everyday life than non-religious parents. However, religiousness was inversely predictive of childrens altruism and positively correlated with their punitive tendencies.
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Children completed a moral sensitivity task programmed in E-prime 2.0 and presented on ASUS T101MT Touchscreen computers and administered in their native language by trained researchers, as well as a dictator game, in the laboratory of each local university or in small rooms adjoining classrooms in each school. Parents completed religiousness measures, a sensitivity to justice measure [30] and an empathy measure [31] for their child, as well as demographic information.
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Children completed a moral sensitivity task programmed in E-prime 2.0 and presented on ASUS T101MT Touchscreen computers and administered in their native language by trained researchers, as well as a dictator game, in the laboratory of each local university or in small rooms adjoining classrooms in each school. Parents completed religiousness measures, a sensitivity to justice measure [30] and an empathy measure [31] for their child, as well as demographic information.
The religious parents tend to think their offspring are little darlings full of empathy and sensitivity for justice, where they're really worse than the non-religious families.
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That's a major part of the paper - that parental reporting doesn't reflect an objective measure
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2019
#68
This forum is open to all. No "safe space" here, though you clearly wish it were.
trotsky
Feb 2019
#69