The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World

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The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World

•Family religious identification decreases children’s altruistic behaviors
•Religiousness predicts parent-reported child sensitivity to injustices and empathy
•Children from religious households are harsher in their punitive tendencies
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)01167-7