On the Receiving End: Discrimination toward the Non-Religious in the United States

Cragun, Ryan T.; Kosmin, Barry A.; Keysar, Ariela; Hammer, Joseph H.; Nielsen, Michael

doi:10.1080/13537903.2012.642741

Cited by 153 publications

(139 citation statements)

References 47 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

128

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Atheists were also ranked as the group that agreed least with the participant's vision of American society, and the group which Americans would most disapprove of their child marrying (Edgell, Gerteis, & Hartmann, 2006). In one particular study by Cragun, Kosmin, Keysar, Hammer and Nielsen (2012), 43% of atheists and agnostics reported experiencing discrimination in a family, workplace, school, military, social or volunteer organisation context. Previous research has demonstrated the extent of anti-atheist prejudice present in an American sample (Gervais, Shariff, and Norenzayan, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Robustness of Anti-Atheist Prejudice as Measured by Way of Cognitive Errors

Giddings

Dunn

2015

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over the past decade, distrust of atheists has been documented in psychological literature yet remains relatively understudied. The current research sought to test the robustness of anti-atheist prejudice. Specifically, it examined the extent to which an individual's anti-atheist prejudice remained unchanged in light of new information. 100 participants from the UK completed an online experiment. The experiment involved reading a vignette describing the actions of an untrustworthy individual. Participants were asked to make a judgment with regards to the untrustworthy individual's identity. The occurrence of a cognitive bias, namely the conjunction fallacy, was used to measure the frequency of antiatheist prejudice. An examination of judgment errors (i.e., conjunction fallacies) under different conditions was used to test the robustness of anti-atheism prejudice. The results show that anti-atheist prejudice is not confined either to dominantly religious countries or religious individuals but rather appears to be a robust judgment about atheists.3

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Robustness of Anti-Atheist Prejudice as Measured by Way of Cognitive Errors

Giddings

Dunn

2015

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…As a marginalized population (Author, 2014;Cragun et al, 2012;Edgel et al, 2006), nonbelievers still face educational and work environments where their worldviews are not fully accepted or accommodated, and the comments of my participants suggest they perceive their future workplaces to not be accepting or accommodating. Subedi (2006) warned that our Christian-centric schools create biases against students with non-traditional religious identities.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Americans report greater disregard for atheists than they do toward any other religious, ethnic, or racial group (Cragun, et al, 2012;Edgell, Gerteis, & Hartmann, 2006). More than 60% of Americans expressed that atheists negatively influence society (Fitzgerald, 2003, as cited in Bramlett, 2012, and nearly half of Americans would disapprove of their child marrying an atheist (Edgell et al, 2006).…”

Section: Public Perception Of Atheists/agnosticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Characteristics of Atheist Pre-Service Elementary Teachers

Anderson

2015

Secularism and Nonreligion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Gerteis, and Hartmann (2006: 230) report that " [a]theists are at the top of the list of groups that Americans find problematic in both public and private life" (see also Cragun et al 2012). Survey research finds that anti-atheist bias in the United States is "persistent, durable, and anchored in moral concern" (Edgell et al 2016: 629).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does religious bias shape access to public services? A large-scale audit experiment among street-level bureaucrats

Pfaff¹,

Crabtree²,

Kern³

et al. 2018

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite growing descriptive evidence of discrimination against minority religious groups and atheists in the United States, little experimental work exists studying whether individuals face differential barriers to receiving public services depending on their religious affiliation. Here we report results from a large-scale audit study of street-level bureaucrats in the American public school system. We emailed the principals of more than 45,000 public schools and asked for a meeting, randomly assigning the religious affiliation/non-affiliation of the family. To get at potential mechanisms, we also randomly assigned belief intensity.We find evidence of substantial discrimination against Muslims and atheists. These individuals are substantially less likely to receive a response, with discrimination growing when they signal that their beliefs are more intense. Protestants and Catholics face no discrimination unless they signal that their religious beliefs are intense. Our ?findings suggest that minority religious groups and atheists face important barriers to equal representation in the public arena.

show abstract

On the Receiving End: Discrimination toward the Non-Religious in the United States

Cited by 153 publications

References 47 publications

The Robustness of Anti-Atheist Prejudice as Measured by Way of Cognitive Errors

The Robustness of Anti-Atheist Prejudice as Measured by Way of Cognitive Errors

Characteristics of Atheist Pre-Service Elementary Teachers

Does religious bias shape access to public services? A large-scale audit experiment among street-level bureaucrats

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About