A Puzzle Unsolved: Failure to Observe Different Effects of God and Religion Primes on Intergroup Attitudes
Jonathan E. Ramsay; Eddie M. W. Tong; Joyce S. Pang; Avijit Chowdhury · 2016 · PLoS ONE
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Abstract
Religious priming has been found to have both positive and negative consequences, and recent research suggests that the activation of God-related and community-related religious cognitions may cause outgroup prosociality and outgroup derogation respectively. The present research sought to examine whether reminders of God and religion have different effects on attitudes towards ingroup and outgroup members. Over two studies, little evidence was found for different effects of these two types of religious primes. In study 1, individuals primed with the words "religion", "God" and a neutral contro
Abstract by Jonathan E. Ramsay; Eddie M. W. Tong; Joyce S. Pang; Avijit Chowdhury, PLoS ONE (2016) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0147178