ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Religiosity, Religious Commitment, and Free Will

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Other

  • Leigh Lewis
    LMU
  • David Hardy
    Loyola Marymount University

Abstract

In a study utilizing the Free Will Inventory, religious people tended to more strongly endorse free will and determinism and more weakly endorse libertarianism compared to those with no religion. We argue that although endorsing free will, religious people also believe that the future is determined by God’s will.

Religion