Believers in common animal ancestor more likely to be inclusive of humans

Belief in human evolution leads to more connectedness with groups different from one’s own, leading to less prejudicial attitudes, researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered. Their work appeared in the “Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.”
Lead author and Ph.D. candidate Stylianos Syropoulos and Associate Professor of Social Psychology Bernhard Leidner, Ph.D., collaborated with co-first author Uri Lifshin, Ph.D., at Reichman University in Israel and co-authors Jeff Greenberg, Ph.D., and graduate student Dylan Horner at the University of Arizona.
Their findings spanned 19 Eastern European countries, 25 Muslim countries and Israel, spread across eight studies of different regions. They analyzed data from the ...