APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Fundamentalists Vs. Flexible Questers: Who Is Prosocial and Happy? Comparing Personalities Across Religions and Countries
- Vassilis Saroglou
New York University - Vassilis Saroglou
University of Louvain - Lucia Adamovova
Slovak Academy of Sciences - Pierre-Yves Brandt
University of Lausanne - Magali Clobert
Stanford University - Magali Clobert
Université catholique de Louvain - Adam Cohen
Arizona State University - Cem Şafak Çukur
Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi - Kwang-Kuo Hwang
National Taiwan University - Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Antonio Muñoz-García
University of Granada - Sebastian Murken
University of Marburg - Kevin Ladd
Indiana University South Bend - Sonia Roccas
The Open University of Israel - Nicolas Rousisau
University of Nantes - Javier Tapia Valladares
University of Costa Rica
Abstract
Across 14 countries of Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Jew, Muslim, and Eastern traditions, flexibility in worldviews rather consistently reflected low agreeableness and low emotionally positive personality (high neuroticism, low extraversion). Inversely, fundamentalism reflected agreeableness, consistently across religions, and conscientiousness--but not in Eastern religions, whereas only Protestant fundamentalism indicated positive emotionality.
Religion
