Correction: Atheists and agnostics are more reflective than religious believers: Four empirical studies and a meta-Analysis(PLoS ONE (2016) 11:4 (e0153039) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153039);Atheists and agnostics are more reflective than religious believers: Four empirical studies and a meta-analysis

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Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Pennycook, Gordon ^a   Ross, Robert M ^b,c   Koehler, Derek J ^a   Fugelsang, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSTIC; ATHEIST; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; RELIGION; THINKING; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RELIGION; THINKING;

EID: 84963527468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176586     Document Type: Erratum

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