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November 7, 2015 02:40 am PST
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Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism
In The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Childrens Altruism Across the World published this week in Current Biology, academic researchers from the US, Canada, Qatar, Jordan, South Africa, Turkey and China report on a study of about 1,200 children from around the world in which a "robust" correlation between religious upbringing in either Christianity or Islam and a lack of altruism was demonstrated. (more…)
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