@inproceedings{9ddf86f98c164bde9551e6bdd4a690c7,
title = "Seeking evidence and explanation signals religious and scientific commitments",
abstract = "Scientific norms value skepticism; many religious traditions value faith. We test the hypothesis that these different attitudes towards inquiry and belief result in different inferences from epistemic behavior: Whereas the pursuit of evidence or explanations is taken as a signal of commitment to science, forgoing further evidence and explanation is taken as a signal of commitment to religion. Two studies (N = 401) support these predictions. We also find that deciding to pursue inquiry is judged more moral and trustworthy, with moderating effects of participant religiosity and scientism. These findings suggest that epistemic behavior can be a social signal and shed light on the epistemic and social functions of scientific vs. religious belief.",
keywords = "evidence, explanation, information search, moral cognition, religion, science",
author = "Maureen Gill and Tania Lombrozo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019.All rights reserved.; 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019 ; Conference date: 24-07-2019 Through 27-07-2019",
year = "2019",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "1837--1843",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society",
}