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Международная группа психологов решила проверить, действительно ли религиозное воспитание повышает моральные качества детей, делает их более альтруистичными, щедрыми и терпимыми к чужим прегрешениям.
Результаты исследования, опубликованные 5 ноября в журнале Current Biology: дети из религиозных семей демонстрировали менее альтруистичное поведение и при этом были склонны более сурово осуждать других.
The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World
Jean Decetycorrespondenceemail, Jason M. Cowell, Kang Lee, Randa Mahasneh, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Bilge Selcuk, Xinyue Zhou
To examine the influence of religion on the expression of altruism, we used a resource allocation task, the dictator game, in a large, diverse, and cross-cultural sample of children (n = 1,170, ages 5-12) from Chicago (USA), Toronto (Canada), Amman (Jordan), Izmir and Istanbul (Turkey), Cape Town (South Africa), and Guangzhou (China). Consistent with literature in the development of generosity, age in years was predictive of the total resources shared (r = 0.408, p < 0.001) [4, 6], but the religious rearing environment fundamentally shaped how their altruism was expressed.
Regardless of religious identification, frequency of religious practice, household spirituality, and overall religiousness were inversely predictive of children’s altruism.
Here, we show that religiosity, as indexed by three different measures, is not associated with increased altruism in young children. Our findings robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions were less altruistic than children from non-religious households.
A second major finding from these data is that religiosity affects children’s punitive tendencies when evaluating interpersonal harm.
Research indicates that religiousness is directly related to increased intolerance for and punitive attitudes toward interpersonal offenses, including the probability of supporting harsh penalties [22].
Thus, children who are raised in religious households frequently appear to be more judgmental of others’ actions, while being less altruistic toward another child from the same social environment, at least when generosity is spontaneously directed to an ambiguous beneficiary.
Overall, our findings cast light on the cultural input of religion on prosocial behavior and contradict the common-sense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind toward others.
The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World
Результаты исследования, опубликованные 5 ноября в журнале Current Biology: дети из религиозных семей демонстрировали менее альтруистичное поведение и при этом были склонны более сурово осуждать других.
The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World
Jean Decetycorrespondenceemail, Jason M. Cowell, Kang Lee, Randa Mahasneh, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Bilge Selcuk, Xinyue Zhou
To examine the influence of religion on the expression of altruism, we used a resource allocation task, the dictator game, in a large, diverse, and cross-cultural sample of children (n = 1,170, ages 5-12) from Chicago (USA), Toronto (Canada), Amman (Jordan), Izmir and Istanbul (Turkey), Cape Town (South Africa), and Guangzhou (China). Consistent with literature in the development of generosity, age in years was predictive of the total resources shared (r = 0.408, p < 0.001) [4, 6], but the religious rearing environment fundamentally shaped how their altruism was expressed.
Regardless of religious identification, frequency of religious practice, household spirituality, and overall religiousness were inversely predictive of children’s altruism.
Here, we show that religiosity, as indexed by three different measures, is not associated with increased altruism in young children. Our findings robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions were less altruistic than children from non-religious households.
A second major finding from these data is that religiosity affects children’s punitive tendencies when evaluating interpersonal harm.
Research indicates that religiousness is directly related to increased intolerance for and punitive attitudes toward interpersonal offenses, including the probability of supporting harsh penalties [22].
Thus, children who are raised in religious households frequently appear to be more judgmental of others’ actions, while being less altruistic toward another child from the same social environment, at least when generosity is spontaneously directed to an ambiguous beneficiary.
Overall, our findings cast light on the cultural input of religion on prosocial behavior and contradict the common-sense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind toward others.
The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World