Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
Seeing Religions As Interconnected Predicts Greater Recognition of Religious Bias
- Negin Toosi
California State University, East Bay
Abstract
We found that endorsement of religious polyculturalism, or the belief that religions have historically shaped and influenced each other (compared to multiculturalism or identity-avoidance), predicted recognition of both systemic and interpersonal forms of religious bias as well as respect for others’ beliefs (combined N = 260).
Religion