Intuitive thinkers should be more religious and analytic thinkers more doubtful

Evidence

This line of thinking leads to a number of interesting predictions: First, that people who are habitual intuitive thinkers should be more religious and, conversely, that habitual analytic thinkers should be the skeptical ones who doubt religion. Second, encouraging people to think intuitively should make them more religious, and thinking analytically should lead to a temporary spike in religious doubt. Third, any long-term habits or experiences that cultivate analytic thinking also should encourage religious doubt. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 599

Categorization

  • XREF: These testable predictions ground the analytical bridge: the fumi-e works by forcing analytic reflection that spikes doubt in a System-1 believer.
  • QUESTION: These predictions beg testing — do priming experiments confirm the intuition-versus-analysis religiosity divergence?