Honesty: One Effect of Primed Religious Representations

By B. Randolph-Seng, Michael Nielsen. 2007

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, background): “More generally, religious priming has been found to activate moral integrity by increasing honesty (Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007) and decreasing hypocrisy (Carpenter & Marshall, 2009).”
Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical review (2011, result): “Similar results were found by Randolph-Seng and Nielsen ( 2007 ), independent of religious precommitments.”
Effects of religious setting on cooperative behavior: a case study from Mauritius (2013, background): “In fact, existing evidence suggests that they can all be expected to impact cooperative behavior (Ahmed & Salas, 2008; Bateson et al., 2006; Bering et al., 2005; Haley & Fessler, 2005; Malhotra, 2010; Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007; Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007).”
“Doing well by doing good”? Ambivalent moral framing in organizations (2011, background): “Even non-semantic cues, such as the presence in the environment of religious or moral symbols (Mazar, Amir, & Ariely, 2008; Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007) or money primes (Vohs, Mead, & Goode, 2008) can facilitate or inhibit the match between a situation and a moral template.”
THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011, background): “However, several other religious-priming studies have found similar responsiveness by believers and nonbelievers (eg, Pichon, Boccato and Saroglou [2007] ; Randolph-Seng and Nielsen [2007] ; Shariff and Norenzayan [2007]: Study 1).”
“Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening”: Religious Priming Activates Submissive Thoughts and Behaviors (2009, background): “Religious priming has been shown to influence self-evaluation concerns ( Baldwin, Carrell, & Lopez, 1990 ), to decrease self-attribution of authorship for events ( Dijksterhuis, Preston, Wegner, & Aarts, 2008 ), to activate prosocial concepts and behavioral schemata ( de Dreu, Yzerbyt, & Leyens, 199”
Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. (2009, background): “…et al., 2006; Haley & Fessler, 2005), several studies on the behavioral effects of religious primes (Baldwin et al., 1990; Pichon et al., 2007; Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007; Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007), and a study on the effects of a purported ghost sighting on honesty (Bering et al.,…”
Priming Christian Religious Concepts Increases Racial Prejudice (2010, background): “Although priming religion may cause some prosociality (Pichon et al., 2007; Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007) and less hostility (Rothschild, Abdollahi, & Pyszczynski, 2007), it appears that priming Christian concepts also causes a negative shift in attitudes toward African Americans.”
Priming in Economics (2016, background): “5 [44] and [45] also found that religious primes increase prosocial behavior and honesty irrespective of participants’ religiosity.”
Principles of Religious Prosociality: A Review and Reformulation (2010, background): “In another behavioral study of self-control, exposure to religious primes reduced cheating (Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007).”
Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding (2012, background): “…also invoke a prosocial stereotype (“benevolent,” “honest”) which causes prosocial behavior through well-understood ideomotor processes (see, e.g., Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007), just as priming an “elderly” stereotype leads participants to actmore like elderly people (e.g., walk more…”
Does religion increase moral behavior (2015, background): “The prediction is supported by findings that religious priming increases feeling of surveillance [35] as well as generosity, cooperation, volunteerism, and honesty [36–39].”
In Godlessness We Distrust: Using Social Psychology to Solve the Puzzle of Anti-atheist Prejudice (2013, background): “In the lab, reminders of gods, religion, and novel supernatural agents promote a variety of prosocial and cooperative ends (e.g., Bering, McLeod & Shackelford, 2005; Piazza, Bering & Ingram, 2011; Pichon, Boccato & Saroglou, 2007; Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007; Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007).”