A freedom to choose or privately express your own religion is a trait
commonly seen in nearly all developed countries or colonies. Though,
there are still areas of the world in which unfair biases still exist
which may lead to an intense hatred or avoidance of religions outside of
their own. This can even lead to violent outbreaks or unfair treatment of those with opposing viewpoints.
Christianophobia deals with the extreme fear of Christians or the
Christian faith. While not commonly seen in the United States, this
phobia has been fairly predominant throughout the rest of the world.
Symptoms of Christianophobia
There are several ways to spot someone who may be christianophobic.
If you or someone you know experience one of the following viewpoints,
consider seeking professional therapy or external help in dealing with the situation:
Conflicting religious views that lead to an intolerance of other religions outside of their own.
An irrational fearthat Christians are conforming together to take over the majority of the world.
A fear that if Christians are not “stopped” they will do the same to their own religion.
Avoidance of Christians
Radically violent or complete intolerance of the Christian religion.
We Trust Brown Eyed People More Than Blue - Except...
People view brown-eyed faces as more trustworthy than those with blue eyes- unless the blue eyes belong to a man with a broad face, according to a new paper in PLOS ONE.
The psychologists (and an anthropologists) attempt to answer a big question: What makes us think a person's face looks trustworthy?
To find out, they asked college students (142 females and 98 males) to rate facial photographs of 40 female and 40 male students and rate them for perceived trustworthiness based on two features: eye color and face shape. The 80 photos were rated for trustworthiness (dominance/attractiveness) on a ten-point scale where 1 means very trustworthy and 10 very untrustworthy.
A significant number of participants found brown-eyed faces more trustworthy than blue-eyed, whether the faces were male or female. More rounded male faces, with bigger mouths and larger chins, were perceived as more trustworthy than narrow ones, but the shape of a female face did not have much effect on how trustworthy it appeared to the respondents.
