In the back of your mind: Subliminal influences of religious concepts on prosocial behavior
Year: 2008
Type: report
Abstract: Does religion enhance prosocial behavior? We investigate the ways in which implicit\ninfluences of religious concepts affect generosity and cooperation. In contrast to previous\nstudies, we assess the direct impact of religion as an independent variable on prosocial\nbehavior. We do so by subliminally priming participants with religious concepts in a\nscrambled sentence task before they play a dictator game and a prisoner’s dilemma game. We\nfound that implicit priming of religious concepts significantly increased prosocial behavior in\nboth games. This result was present among both religious and nonreligious participants. Selfreported\nmeasure of religiosity was related neither to generosity nor to cooperation.
Authors: Ali Ahmed, Osvaldo Salas
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1532922177