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Religious Priming: A Meta-Analysis With a Focus on Prosociality
Abstract
Priming has emerged as a valuable tool within the psychological study of religion, allowing for tests of religion’s causal effect on a number of psychological outcomes, such as prosocial behavior. As the literature has grown, questions about the reliability and boundary conditions of religious priming have arisen. We use a combination of traditional effect-size analyses, p-curve analyses, and adjustments for publication bias to evaluate the robustness of four types of religious priming (Analyses 1-3), review the empirical evidence for religion’s effect specifically on prosocial behavior (Analyses 4-5), and test whether religious-priming effects generalize to individuals who report little or no religiosity (Analyses 6-7). Results across 93 studies and 11,653 participants show that religious priming has robust effects across a variety of outcome measures—prosocial measures included. Religious priming does not, however, reliably affect non-religious participants—suggesting that priming depends on the cognitive activation of culturally transmitted religious beliefs.
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- Shariff, A. F., Willard, A. K., Andersen, T., & Norenzayan, A.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-02-11
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-48
- ISSN
- 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7957
- OpenAlex
- W1978590918
- Cited by
- 488
- References
- 112
- FWCI
- 55.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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