Abstract Although religious identification often correlates positively with traditional gender role attitudes and ambivalent sexism (Mikołajczak & Pietrzak, Sex Roles, 70 (9–10), 387–399, 2014), other work shows it has countervailing associations related conservative views (Lockhart et al., Religion, Brain Behavior , 10 (4), 379–392, 2020). One reason these opposing effects emerge is that i...