Summary: The stereotype that science and religion are incompatible is pervasive society, particularly in the United States. Although historians find little evidence of tangible conflict between these domains (Ferngren, 2017), research shows that Christian students in science feel unwelcome, suffer from negative stereotypes (Barnes et al., 2020), and underperform on scientific tasks (Rios et al., 2015). These outcomes mirror the lack of belonging and underperformance that plagues women in STEM due to a psychological process called stereotype threat. The stereotypes regarding the chasm between science and religion likely contribute to a lack of Christian representation in the sciences, leading to smaller pools of science students and potentially biased research. I will explore whether an intervention that bridges the science-religion gulf can mitigate the effects of religious stereotype threat on science performance and sense of belonging. Christian and non-religious college students recruited from Prolific will be randomly assigned to watch either

Summary: We propose to establish a multidisciplinary network of scholars to collaborate on research concerning the social and cultural aspects of the intersection of religion and astrobiology. Despite the great cultural traction and public interest in this topic, it has received little attention within the social sciences and allied disciplines (e.g., history). Our network will begin to rectify this. Our project will ‘examine a social or cultural aspect of science [astrobiology]… in relation to [one or more] religious, spiritual or non-religious tradition[s], position[s] or worldview[s], including unbelief’. We will do this by creating a network of interested scholars from a wide range of disciplines, career-stages (including ECRS and PGRs), and worldviews to approach this topic from a variety of different angles. This will foster novel, synergistic collaborations and outputs during both this stage of the project, and beyond this initial 24-month period. The network will primarily be based in the