Submission + - Study found atheists more compassionate than religious people (huffingtonpost.com)
perles writes: Study conducted by the University of California, Berkeley, found that atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people. In the less religious people the emotional strength is the critical factor to help a person in need. The determining factors that drives religious people is different. "The more religious, on the other hand, may ground their generosity less in emotion, and more in other factors such as doctrine, a communal identity, or reputational concerns." says social psychologist Robb Willer. Meanwhile, atheists and agnostics.
