Evaluation of religious and neutral arguments in religious and atheist student groups
- 1 April 1967
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 19 (1) , 3-12
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00049536708255556
Abstract
30 Ss from 3 student religious groups (Student Christian Movement, Evangelical Union, Newman Society) and 10 atheist students judged the logical validity of 24 religious syllogisms and 16 neutral syllogisms. Results indicate that Ss' evaluation of the religious syllogisms is influenced by their religious attitude, critical ability, and intolerance of ambiguity; that the fundamentalist EU group is highest in dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity and the atheist group lowest; and that Ss high in intolerance of ambiguity tend to be relatively low in critical ability.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Religious BehaviourPublished by Taylor & Francis ,2006
- Acceptance and rejection of arguments in relation to attitude strength, critical ability, and intolerance of inconsistency.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1964
- Personality and attitude characteristics of fundamentalist university studentsAustralian Journal of Psychology, 1963
- Personality and attitude characteristics of fundamentalist theological studentsAustralian Journal of Psychology, 1963
- The Measurement of Religious Attitudes in a University PopulationBritish Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1963
- Religious belief in two student societiesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 1962
- A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFBritish Journal of Psychology, 1962
- Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable1Journal of Personality, 1962
- Statistical principles in experimental design.Published by American Psychological Association (APA) ,1962
- The measurement and correlates of category width as a cognitive variable1Journal of Personality, 1958