Religious disbelief is linked to a stable analytic cognitive style.

Evidence

Participants who were more likely to overrule the intuitive answer were also less likely to believe in God. Shenhav and his colleagues were careful to consider other factors and ruled them out as potential counterexplanations. They showed that the lower levels of belief among the analytic thinkers were not because they had higher education levels, more general intelligence, different personality profiles, or higher income, or were older or younger, more liberal politically, or male. Analytic thinking even explained decreases in religious belief since childhood, suggesting that analytic thinkers tend to lose their religious fervor even if they were raised in a religious environment. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 602

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s core claim that religious belief arises from intuitive cognition; ties to the dual-process model the reader is mobilizing for Big God mechanisms.