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Disclaimer: I, like many of you, am an agnostic-atheist and so the answer is neither. Or is it? Because this question can be applied to me, too. Let me elucidate... In general terms,
Jonathan Haidt is a moral and political psychologist of great note. ATP's Alan Duval has spent a lot of time in part agreeing and in part critiquing aspects of Haidt'
[This post is a guest post from Alan Duval] Jonathan has kindly invited me to present my work on the psychology of morality. What follows is largely drawn from my dissertation, which I
Hitting the news today was research using data from around the word which showed that children from non-religious families were more altruistic and empathetic than their religious counterparts. This is interesting because it fits into a wider picture as to how religion works in tandem with identity,
Post hoc rationalisation is what most of us end up doing when we reason. We have a gut instinct, a potentially irrational or a-rational decision based on the underlying cognitive faculties connected to our whole personhood, physical reactions and gut instincts.