ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

The Morality of the Agnostics: Liberal or Conservative?

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Social Psychology

  • Moise Karim
    UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
  • Vassilis Saroglou
    University of Louvain

Abstract

Extending previous research on agnostics’ personality, we investigated their moral attitudes (EVS 2017, 34 European countries, N=56,491). Across religious cultures, agnostics were midway between conservative religionists and liberal atheists on hygienic and survival morality (family, sexuality, substance use, euthanasia, and suicide), but similar to atheists regarding cheating and death penalty.

Religion