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Prosocial Behavior and Religion: New Evidence Based on Projective Measures and Peer Ratings
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An important discrepancy seems to exist between self-reports and laboratory studies regarding prosociality among religious people. Some have even suggested that this involves moral hypocrisy on the part of religious people. However, the assumption of the four studies reported here is that the impact of religiousness on prosociality is limited but exists, and does not reflect self-delusion. In Study 1 (N= 106), religious young adults tended not to use indirect aggression in dealing with hypothetical daily hassles. In Study 2 (N= 105), female students' religiosity was associated with willingness to help close targets in hypothetical situations but the effect was not extended to unknown targets. In Studies 3 (N= 315, 105 triads) and 4 (N= 274, 109 targets), religious targets not only reported high altruistic behavior and empathy, but were also perceived as such by peers (friends, siblings, or colleagues) in three out of four cases. Other results from the studies suggested that the prosociality of religious people is not an artifact of gender, social desirability bias, security in attachment, empathy, or honesty.
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Metadata
- Authors
- SAROGLOU, V., PICHON, I., TROMPETTE, L., VERSCHUEREN, M., & DERNELLE, R.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- Corresponding author
- SAROGLOU, VASSILIS
- PICHON, ISABELLE
- TROMPETTE, LAURENCE
- VERSCHUEREN, MARIJKE
- DERNELLE, REBECCA
- ORCID
- SAROGLOU, VASSILIS
- Venue
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 323-348
- ISSN
- 0021-8294 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-5906
- OpenAlex
- W2094001799
- Cited by
- 449
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 5.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Keywords
- prosocial behavior, religiosity, moral hypocrisy, altruism, empathy, indirect aggression, helping behavior, peer perception, social desirability bias, attachment security, honesty, gender differences
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