Anti-atheist and anti-gay prejudices have distinct distrust versus disgust profiles

Evidence

As hypothesized, attitude profiles toward atheists and gays clearly diverged. Atheists were viewed as less trustworthy than gays, but gays were viewed as more disgusting. In other words, anti-atheist prejudice was derived from a distrust reaction, whereas anti-gay prejudice was derived from a disgust reaction. Another clue was how belief in God was related to these patterns. While greater belief in God was related to greater expressed antipathy toward both atheists and gays, we found that belief was more strongly related to distrust of atheists than to disgust toward atheists, whereas it was more strongly related to disgust toward gays than distrust of gays. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 268

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Distrust-based anti-atheist prejudice directly supports the Big God/partner-choice mechanism the reader is building for Silent — distrust is how a community signals that an agent can’t be trusted to cooperate, which is exactly the fumi-e logic.

Related

• Anti-atheist prejudice stems from distrust while anti-gay prejudice stems from disgust. (similarity 0.94)
• Anti-atheist and anti-gay prejudice are rooted in different psychological sentiments. (similarity 0.87)
• Atheist distrust stems specifically from moral distrust, not fear or disgust (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-atheist prejudice cannot be explained by xenophobia or general outgroup distrust. (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-atheist prejudice stems from trust concerns, not xenophobia or outgroup dislike (similarity 0.84)
• Belief in God’s existence, not lifestyle, drives outgroup distrust. (similarity 0.84)
• Distrust of atheists exceeds what warmth and competence stereotypes alone predict (similarity 0.83)
• Antipathy toward atheists stems from religious distrust, not general dislike (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-atheist hostility is not simply generalized prejudice (similarity 0.83)
• Atheists are distrusted more than other stigmatized groups even amid rising tolerance (similarity 0.82)
• Moral distrust of atheists is not explained by generic stereotype content (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-atheist prejudice is specifically about distrust, not general dislike. (similarity 0.82)
• Distrust of atheists is a distinct, poorly understood religious prejudice (similarity 0.82)
• Atheists are intuitively distrusted as severely as rapists in experiments. (similarity 0.81)
• Atheists are specifically distrusted as moral freeloaders, not disliked generally (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Anti-atheist prejudice stems from trust concerns, not xenophobia or outgroup dislike #corroborates (0.92)
• Anti-atheist exclusion rises when trust matters critically in a role #corroborates (0.85)