Mere Church Proximity Correlated With Increased Distrust of Out-Groups

[image error]I just came across this, from the blog Epiphenom, reporting on a new study in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion:

LaBouff stopped people at random outside a church in the Netherlands (and, to check if the effect was culturally specific, a few people outside Westminster Abbey in London). He asked them a series of questions, including asking them to rate their attitudes to different groups on a 1-10 scale.

He also stopped some other people in a location that contained only...