Science & the Big Questions

Should You Raise Your Kids Religious? Here’s What the Science Says

Does raising your child religious actually make them a better — or happier — person?

Quartz

Topics: Atheism Azim Shariff Morality Religiosity Scientific Study of Religion Will Gervais

Differences in Mental Images of Believers and Atheists

Do people spontaneously generate positive mental images of theists and negative mental images of atheists?

Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Topics: Atheism Bias Morality Religiosity Trust Will Gervais

How Many Atheists Are There?

Three percent of Americans. Or maybe that’s 11 percent. This 11 percent figure may be even way too low. Simply because that figure comes from telephone polls, where people have to tell a stranger they don’t believe in God. And lots of people might not want to do that.

Will Gervais’ Blog

Topics: Atheism Bias Demography Will Gervais

Can You Be Good Without God?

New research raises questions about whether or not people can be truly good or truly bad without a belief in religion.

Daily Beast

Topics: Atheism Bias Morality Will Gervais

Why (We Think) Atheists Are More Likely to Be Serial Killers

There is a global moral prejudice against people who do not believe in a god or gods, according to a new study by UConn anthropologist Dmitris Xygalatas and colleagues.

UConn Today

Topics: Atheism Bias Morality Religiosity Will Gervais

The Serial Killer Test: Biases Against Atheists Emerge in Study

Most people around the world, whether religious or not, presume that serial killers are more likely to be atheists than believers in any god, a new study suggests.

The New York Times

Topics: Atheism Bias Morality Will Gervais

How Many American Atheists Are There Really?

“There’s a lot of atheists in the closet” — why most polls on religious belief are probably wrong.

Vox

Topics: Atheism Demography Will Gervais