title: Direct replication of Gervais & Norenzayan (2012): No evidence that analytic thinking decreases religious belief.
abstract: Gervais & Norenzayan (2012) reported in Science a series of 4 experiments in which manipulations intended to foster analytic thinking decreased religious belief. We conducted a precise, large, multi-site pre-registered replication of one of these experiments. We observed little to no effect of the experimental manipulation on religious belief (d = 0.07 in the wrong direction, 95% CI[-0.12, 0.25], N = 941). The original finding does not seem to provide reliable or valid evidence that analytic thinking causes a decrease in religious belief.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, United States of America.|School of Education, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
authors.forename: Clinton
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois, United States of America.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sundermeier
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, United States of America.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9837-6529
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Calin-Jageman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012067:Religion; D013850:Thinking