HBR Daily Stat: Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice.

In a series of psychological experiments conducted in Vancouver, Canada, participants revealed that they considered atheists to be less trustworthy than a number of groups often considered to be outliers, including Muslims, gay men, and feminists, and only as trustworthy as rapists, according to a team led by Will M. Gervais of the University of British Columbia. The lack of trust in atheists may reflect people's assumption that individuals tend to behave more ethically if they believe they are being monitored by a higher power, the researchers suggest.

Read more at the US National Library of Medicine. (Thanks, Tom)