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mark61
07-11-15, 00:31
Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
@harrietsherwood

Friday 6 November 2015 17.10 GMT

Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious households, according to a new study.

Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the relationship between religion and morality.

They found that religious belief is a negative influence on children’s altruism.

“Overall, our findings ... contradict the commonsense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind towards others,” said the authors of The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism Across the World, published this week in Current Biology.

“More generally, they call into question whether religion is vital for moral development, supporting the idea that secularisation of moral discourse will not reduce human kindness – in fact, it will do just the opposite.”

Almost 1,200 children, aged between five and 12, in the US, Canada, China, Jordan, Turkey and South Africa participated in the study. Almost 24% were Christian, 43% Muslim, and 27.6% non-religious. The numbers of Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic and other children were too small to be statistically valid.

They were asked to choose stickers and then told there were not enough to go round for all children in their school, to see if they would share. They were also shown film of children pushing and bumping one another to gauge their responses.

The findings “robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions (Christianity and Islam) were less altruistic than children from non-religious households”.

Older children, usually those with a longer exposure to religion, “exhibit[ed] the greatest negative relations”.

The study also found that “religiosity affects children’s punitive tendencies”. Children from religious households “frequently appear to be more judgmental of others’ actions”, it said.

Muslim children judged “interpersonal harm as more mean” than children from Christian families, with non-religious children the least judgmental. Muslim children demanded harsher punishment than those from Christian or non-religious homes.

At the same time, the report said that religious parents were more likely than others to consider their children to be “more empathetic and more sensitive to the plight of others”.

The report pointed out that 5.8 billion humans, representing 84% of the worldwide population, identify as religious. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and pro-social behaviour, the relation between religion and morality is a contentious one,” it said.

The report was “a welcome antidote to the presumption that religion is a prerequisite of morality”, said Keith Porteus Wood of the UK National Secular Society.

“It would be interesting to see further research in this area, but we hope this goes some way to undoing the idea that religious ethics are innately superior to the secular outlook. We suspect that people of all faiths and none share similar ethical principles in their day to day lives, albeit may express them differently depending on their worldview.”

According to the respected Pew Research Center, which examines attitudes toward and practices of faith, most people around the world think it is necessary to believe in God to be a moral person. In the US, 53% of adults think that faith in God is necessary to morality, a figure which rose to seven of 10 adults in the Middle East and three-quarters of adults in six African countries surveyed by Pew.

Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds | World news | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-altruistic-secular-kids-study)

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Eric de Blois
07-11-15, 03:44
Veel gelovigen menen dat er zonder religie geen moraal kan bestaan. Christenen stonden daar vroeger op voor. Zonder god geen moraal. Toch hebben de vele filosofen uit de geschiedenis al heel lang een idee over ethiek en moraal onafhankelijk van religie. Religie en moraal zijn twee gescheiden zaken, al denken gelovigen van niet. Mensen kunnen zeer goed zonder religie bepalen wat goed en fout is. Daar hebben we de tien geboden of sharia niet voor nodig.

De bevinden van dit onderzoek gaan nog een stapje verder door de stellen dat religie zelf negatief is voor het ontwikkelen van oordelen over goed en fout. Ik ga daar in mee. Ik denk dat religie schadelijk is voor de mensenrechten, ethiek en moraal. Maar dat dacht ik al zonder dit onderzoek.


They found that religious belief is a negative influence on children’s altruism.

Op internet kun je natuurlijk iedere waarheid bevestigd krijgen als je die zoekt. Er zijn misschien ook wel (wetenschappelijke) onderzoeken die het tegenovergestelde bevestigen. 1200 kinderen uit een beperkt aantal landen deden mee. Dat is toch niet echt representatief voor de rest van de wereld lijkt mij. Wat betekenen 1200 mensen op 7 miljard? En waarom ook niet volwassenen betrekken bij een onderzoek.


The numbers of Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic and other children were too small to be statistically valid.

Kijk daar ga je dan al onderuit met een groep die buiten beschouwing wordt gelaten in het onderzoek.


Muslim children judged “interpersonal harm as more mean” than children from Christian families, with non-religious children the least judgmental. Muslim children demanded harsher punishment than those from Christian or non-religious homes.

Kinderen kletsen gewoon na wat ze thuis te horen krijgen. De vuiligheid komt van volwassenen af. Maar goed, het is wel een duidelijk beeld.

Kijk ik dacht al negatief over moslims en de islam zonder dat onderzoek. Maar ja, ik ben natuurlijk bevooroordeeld, slachtoffer van negatieve beelden uit de media en niet in de laatste plaats dit forum. Ook negatieve ervaring in de werksfeer. Aardig dat de wetenschap nu mijn vooroordelen bevestigd. Nu nog een onderzoek op grote schaal uitvoeren. Want 1200 deelnemers in een bepaalde leeftijd is toch wel mager.

Marsipulami
07-11-15, 09:22
The report was “a welcome antidote to the presumption that religion is a prerequisite of morality”, said Keith Porteus Wood of the UK National Secular Society.

Wij van Wc-eend adviseren Wc-eend.


https://youtu.be/MzakqMAaHME

super ick
07-11-15, 12:18
Wij van Wc-eend adviseren Wc-eend.


https://youtu.be/MzakqMAaHME

Dit heeft niets met de uitslag van het rapport te maken. Dit is een opmerking van iemand over de conclusie.