Are religious people nicer people? Taking a closer look at the religion–empathy relationship

By B. Duriez. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Health, Social Psychology

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Frameworks of Caring and Helping in Adolescence: Are Empathy, Religiosity, and Spirituality Related Constructs? (2010, background): “The lack of relevance of religious attendance to empathy does not negate connections between religiosity and empathy because importance of beliefs was significant, which might be viewed as similar to the intrinsic motivation of religion (Allport & Ross, 1967), the quest dimension of religiosity (Bat”
The Role of Empathy and Parenting Style in the Development of Antisocial Behaviors (2009, methodology): “Employing these two seven-item subscales as independent measures of cognitive and emotional empathy follows a convention utilized by many current empathy researchers and is supported by validity and reliability studies (Davis, 1983b; Duriez, 2004; Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004; Spinella, 2005).”
An Investigation of the Relations Between Altruism, Empathy, and Spirituality (2012, background): “Shariff and Norenzayan (2007) found that self-reported religiosity was unrelated to prosocial behavior, and Duriez (2004) found that religiousness itself was unrelated to empathy, whereas the manner in which religious content is mentally processed and interpreted (e.g., whether the Bible is…”
Religion's role in prosocial behavior: Myth or reality? (2006, background): “…tend to compare, for instance, extrinsic with intrinsic religious orientation, intrinsic with quest religion, fundamentalism with quest religion, or literal with symbolic religious thinking (e.g., Batson et al., 1999, 2001, 2005; Duriez, 2004; Fontaine et al., 2005; Goldfried & Miner, 2002).”
RESEARCH: "Consequences of a Multidimensional Approach to Religion for the Relationship Between Religiosity and Value Priorities" (2005, background): “These findings are in line with the findings of Duriez (2003, 2004a, 2004b), who found that this dimension is essentially unrelated to moral attitudes and moral competence, racism, and empathy.”