Abstract
Do religious people think about their lives and the world around them in ways that differ from less religious or nonreligious persons? This paper explores the possibility that religiousness may be related to one particular structural aspect of information processing, the integrative complexity of people's thinking about various issues. Integrative Complexity. Recent conceptualizations of integrative complexity (IC) of information processing have emphasized the role of both dispositional and situational determinants, and their interaction (e.g., Tetlock 1985; Walker 1987). Here, we follow up recent work in further exploring religiousness, as well as specific dispositional (authoritarianism, dogmatism, need for cognition) and situational (content domain, familiarity with issues, and extent to which complexity is prodded) variables related to IC of thought, with a particular focus on religious fundamentalism and content domains.
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