Religiosity predicts prosociality, especially when measured by self-report: A meta-analysis of almost 60 years of research.

JM Kelly, SR Kramer, AF Shariff - Psychological Bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This meta-analysis explores the long-standing and heavily debated question of whether
religiosity is associated with prosocial and antisocial behavior at the individual level. In an …

Prejudices and discrimination as goal activated and threat driven: The affordance management approach applied to sexual prejudice.

AG Pirlott, CL Cook - Psychological Review, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Stereotypes, prejudices, and discriminatory behaviors directed toward people based on their
sexual orientation vary broadly. Existing perspectives on sexual prejudice argue for different …

Cross-cultural variations in Big Five relationships with religiosity: A sociocultural motives perspective.

JE Gebauer, W Bleidorn, SD Gosling… - Journal of Personality …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
A sociocultural motives perspective (SMP) on Big Five relationships is introduced. According
to the SMP, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness elicit assimilation to sociocultural norms …

Perceptions of discrimination among atheists: Consequences for atheist identification, psychological and physical well-being.

MJ Doane, M Elliott - Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Atheists are a marginalized group of people in the United States. Although studies have
found that atheists perceive prejudice and experience discrimination, little is known about …

Religion and reducing prejudice

J Burch-Brown, W Baker - Group Processes & Intergroup …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on findings from the study of prejudice and prejudice reduction, we identify a
number of mechanisms through which religious communities may influence the intergroup …

Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests.

TM Entringer, JE Gebauer, J Eck… - Journal of Personality …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
How relevant are the Big Five in predicting religiosity? Existing evidence suggests that the
Big Five domains account for only a small amount of variance in religiosity. Some …

White fear, dehumanization, and low empathy: Lethal combinations for shooting biases.

Y Mekawi, K Bresin, CD Hunter - Cultural diversity and ethnic …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: A growing number of studies have documented the existence racial shooting
biases against Black versus White targets (Correll et al., 2002). Little is known about …

Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank

P Turchin, H Whitehouse, J Larson, E Cioni… - Religion, Brain & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history
have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of …

Christian religious badges instill trust in Christian and non-Christian perceivers.

ME McCullough, P Swartwout, JH Shaver… - … of Religion and …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
We conducted 4 experiments to examine how people incorporate visual information about
strangers' religious identities—religious badges—into their decisions about how much to …

A sheep in wolf's clothing? Toward an understanding of the religious dones.

DR Van Tongeren, CN DeWall… - Journal of experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People often favor their ingroup and derogate members of the outgroup. However, less is
known about “religious dones,” who used to identify as religious but no longer do and have …