title: What is the association between religious affiliation and children's altruism?
abstract: Decety et al.[1] examined the relationships between household religiosity and sociality in children sampled from six countries. We were keenly interested in Decety et al.[1]'s conclusions about a negative relationship between religiosity and generosity - measured with the Dictator Game - as our team has investigated related questions, often with potentially contrasting findings [2-5]. We argue here that, after addressing peculiarities in their analyses, Decety et al.[1]'s data are consistent with a different interpretation.
authors: Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. Electronic address: shariff@uoregon.edu.
authors: Azim F
authors: AF
authors: Shariff
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors: Aiyana K
authors: AK
authors: Willard
authors: Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London WC2A 3LJ, UK.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Muthukrishna
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401, USA.
authors: Stephanie R
authors: SR
authors: Kramer
authors: Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Henrich
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D012067:Religion