For years, religious tolerance between religious groups has been a critical sociopolitical problem throughout the world. To date, there has been little research that investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying the emergence of tolerance in religious people. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the roles of intellectual humility and cognitive flexibility in mediating the relationship between religiosity and religious tolerance are dependent on aggressiveness. We employed mediation analyses over data collected from 226 Indonesian Muslim students to test our predictions. Results showed that intellectual humility and cognitive flexibility significantly mediated the influence of religiosity in increasing religious tolerance. As predicted, intellectual humility was the more potent mediator among religious participants who possessed a high level of aggressiveness, whereas cognitive flexibility was the more potent mediator among religious participants with a low level of aggressiveness. The aggressiveness of religious participants also determined whether intellectual humility or cognitive flexibility would increase religious tolerance. Our findings suggest the importance of developing intellectual humility and cognitive flexibility to promote tolerant behaviour among religious people.

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宗教宽容如何在宗教人士中出现：关于智力谦逊、认知灵活性和攻击性特征的作用的调查

多年来，宗教团体之间的宗教宽容一直是全世界的一个严重的社会政治问题。迄今为止，很少有研究调查宗教人士出现宽容的心理机制。本研究的目的是检验智力谦逊和认知灵活性在调解宗教信仰和宗教宽容之间的关系中的作用是否依赖于攻击性。我们对从 226 名印度尼西亚穆斯林学生收集的数据进行了中介分析，以检验我们的预测。结果表明，智力谦逊和认知灵活性显着介导了宗教信仰对提高宗教容忍度的影响。正如预测的那样，在具有高攻击性的宗教参与者中，智力谦逊是更有效的中介，而在攻击性较低的宗教参与者中，认知灵活性是更有效的中介。宗教参与者的攻击性也决定了智力谦逊或认知灵活性是否会增加宗教容忍度。我们的研究结果表明，培养智力谦逊和认知灵活性对于促进宗教人士的宽容行为非常重要。