Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup

Abstract: Several studies show that there is a connection between religion and prosociality (e.g., Saroglou, 2013). To investigate whether there is a causal relationship between these two variables, a growing number of scholars employed priming religious concepts and measure its influence on prosocial behavior (e.g., Pichon, Boccato, & Saroglou, 2007). In the recent development of religious priming, Ritter and Preston (2013) argued that different primes (agent prime, spiritual/abstract prime, and institutional prime) may also have varying influence on prosocial behavior specifically helping an ingroup or an outgroup target. With this in mind, a 2 (social categorization of the target of help) by 3 (agent prime, institutional prime, spiritual prime) experiment was conducted to directly investigate this hypothesis. Results suggest that priming religious concepts especially the spiritual prime can increase prosocial behaviors. However, no significant effect was found on the social categorization.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1170

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup ; volume:12 ; number:4 ; day:18 ; month:11 ; year:2016
Europe's journal of psychology ; 12, Heft 4 (18.11.2016)

Creator
Jame Bryan L. Batara
Pamela S. Franco
Mequia Angelo M. Quiachon
Dianelle Rose M. Sembrero

DOI
10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1170
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417202817741765
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  • Pamela S. Franco
  • Mequia Angelo M. Quiachon
  • Dianelle Rose M. Sembrero

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