Say you’re 8 years old and sitting in a roomful of kids. Each of the kids has lined up according to her family’s level of religiosity (more religious on the left; least religious on the right), and each has been given a whole bunch of cool stickers.

Would you like some of those cool stickers? Heck yeah you would! But, first, you’ve got to find someone to share with you. So … who do you ask?

Scientists now say you’d be wise to veer right.

A study led by University of Chicago Prof. Jean Decety and published Thursday in the journal Current Biology has found that secular children are statistically more generous and less judgmental than their Christian and Muslim peers. What’s more, the research showed, Christian parents are more likely to wear blinders when it comes to assessing their own children’s level of altruism.

The paper, titled The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World, says: