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How Could Anyone Believe That? Personality Traits and Thinking Dispositions as Predictors of Religious Attitutes.

In the light of the misunderstanding between the religious and the non-religious, as well as misconceptions about the origins of the religious beliefs, our study aimed to examine the predictive value of personality and thinking dispositions in determining religious orientation. By applying the Post-Critical Belief Scale (Duriez, Fontaine & Hutsebaut, 2000) on a Croatian student population (N=307) we extracted three distinct dimensions of religious belief – Religiosity, Skepticism and Orthodoxy. Thinking dispositions, assessed by the Actively Open-Minded Thinking Scale (Stanovich & West, 2007) and the Need for Cognition Scale (Cacioppo et al., 1996), proved to be useful in discriminating between the Skeptical non-believers and both the Orthodox and the more open Religious believers. However, the personality dimension of Openness was shown to be the most reliable predictor of Skepticism. Furthermore, Agreeableness was a relevant predictor of Religiosity, whereas Conscientiousness contributed significantly to predicting Orthodoxy.

Big Five; Religiosity; Thinking Dispositions; Personality

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