Ingroup-threat explanations fail to explain atheist distrust deeper than Muslims’ or gay men’s

Evidence

It is also worth considering another perspective, which says that maybe atheists are distrusted because they are seen as a threat to ingroup morality. Social psychologists have known for a long time that people tend to view their ingroups in moralistic terms. This may lead to distrust of outgroups to the extent that outgroups are perceived to threaten the basis of this ingroup morality. For participants with a prominent religious ingroup identification (for example, Christians), atheists might be distrusted because they threaten the moral basis of the ingroup. This perspective also predicts that, as we have found, distrust of atheists is related to religiosity. However, this approach does not obviously predict that atheists should be more distrusted than other groups often viewed as opposed to traditional Christian morality, such as Muslims and gay men. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 292

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Distrust of atheists is rooted in religious prosociality and narrowly context-specific — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 286; The religious-atheist trust gap is not symmetric ingroup-outgroup prejudice — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 285; Supernatural monitoring beliefs drive atheist distrust even without ingroup membership — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 296 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Distrust of atheists is rooted in religious prosociality and narrowly context-specific — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 286; The religious-atheist trust gap is not symmetric ingroup-outgroup prejudice — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 285; Supernatural monitoring beliefs drive atheist distrust even without ingroup membership — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 296 (+7 more)