The article examines how hypocrisy and intolerance within religious groups contribute to doubt among college students, and how these doubts can both increase distress and foster intellectual humility and open-ended meaning-making. It highlights how social experiences around faith influence mental health and personal growth during emerging adulthood.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it links social environment, belief systems, and emotional well-being, illustrating how identity development and meaning-making processes unfold in real-world contexts.

Article Title: Hypocrisy and intolerance drive religious doubt among college students

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/hypocrisy-and-intolerance-drive-religious-doubt-among-college-students/

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The Power of Not Knowing: Embracing Uncertainty and Recognizing the Illusion of Knowledge

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/02/15/13/40/59/analysis/jaimedavid327/9797/the-power-of-not-knowing-embracing-uncertainty-and-recognizing-the-illusion-of-knowledge/

77% of Americans believe other people are living in a bubble on the internet. Only 32% believe they, themselves are.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/Fake-News-Study

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#IntellectualHumility

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Three studies of the relationship between intellectual humility and empathy found that greater intellectual humility was associated with more accurate understanding of others' emotions--and also with less distress when confronted by those emotions.

Summary: https://www.psypost.org/intellectually-humble-people-show-heightened-empathic-accuracy-and-emotional-resilience/

Original paper (not open access): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672241313427

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What good is #intellectualHumility in #education?

Experiments found that teachers who modeled IH made student's more interested in
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- the class

🔓 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382557825

🔒 https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001843

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