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== Jagiellonian University study on atheism and dogmatism ==

== Jagiellonian University study on atheism and dogmatism ==

[[File:BibliotekaJagiellońska-AlejaAdamaMickiewicza22-POL, Kraków.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Jagiellonian Library at Jagiellonian University]]

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The an excerpt from the abstract for the journal article ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' which was published in the ''British Journal of Psychology'' states:

The an excerpt from the abstract for the journal article ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' which was published in the ''British Journal of Psychology'' states:

{{Cquote|In this article, we suggest that dogmatic beliefs, manifested as strong beliefs that there is no God (i.e., dogmatic atheism) as well as strong beliefs in God (i.e., religious orthodoxy), can serve as a cognitive response to uncertainty. Moreover, we claim that people who dogmatically do not believe in religion and those who dogmatically believe in religion are equally prone to intolerance and prejudice towards groups that violate their important values. That is because prejudice towards these groups may be an efficient strategy to protect the certainty that strong beliefs provide. We tested these assumptions in two studies. In Study 1 and Study 2, we demonstrated that dogmatic beliefs mediate the relationship between intolerance to uncertainty and both, religious orthodoxy and dogmatic atheism. In addition, in Study 2 we showed that both the religiously orthodox and dogmatic atheists become prejudiced towards groups that violate their values and that these effects are especially strong under experimentally induced uncertainty.<ref>[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12186 ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' by Małgorzata Kossowska,  Aneta Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka,,  Maciej Sekerdej, ''British Journal of Psychology'', First published: 19 February 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12186</ref>}}

{{Cquote|In this article, we suggest that dogmatic beliefs, manifested as strong beliefs that there is no God (i.e., dogmatic atheism) as well as strong beliefs in God (i.e., religious orthodoxy), can serve as a cognitive response to uncertainty. Moreover, we claim that people who dogmatically do not believe in religion and those who dogmatically believe in religion are equally prone to intolerance and prejudice towards groups that violate their important values. That is because prejudice towards these groups may be an efficient strategy to protect the certainty that strong beliefs provide. We tested these assumptions in two studies. In Study 1 and Study 2, we demonstrated that dogmatic beliefs mediate the relationship between intolerance to uncertainty and both, religious orthodoxy and dogmatic atheism. In addition, in Study 2 we showed that both the religiously orthodox and dogmatic atheists become prejudiced towards groups that violate their values and that these effects are especially strong under experimentally induced uncertainty.<ref>[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12186 ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' by Małgorzata Kossowska,  Aneta Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka,,  Maciej Sekerdej, ''British Journal of Psychology'', First published: 19 February 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12186</ref>}}