Study claiming ‘religious children are mean’ is retracted
A study which claimed that being religious makes children less generous and meaner than their non-religious peers has been retracted by its own authors.
The study was prominently reported by The Guardian and The Independent when it was published in 2015, despite receiving strong criticism from academics.
Professor Jean Decety has now admitted to making a “stupid mistake”, and asked Current Biology, the journal which published the study, to scrap it.