Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup

Several studies show that there is a connection between religion and prosociality (e.g., Saroglou, 2013). To investigate whether there is a causal relationship between these two variables, a growing number of scholars employed priming religious concepts and measure its influence on prosocial behavio...

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Main Authors:	Batara, Jame Bryan L., Franco, Pamela S., Quiachon, Mequia Angelo M., Sembrero, Dianelle Rose M.
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Language:	English
Published:	PsychOpen 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114877/

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spelling	pubmed-51148772016-11-21 Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup Batara, Jame Bryan L. Franco, Pamela S. Quiachon, Mequia Angelo M. Sembrero, Dianelle Rose M. Research Reports Several studies show that there is a connection between religion and prosociality (e.g., Saroglou, 2013). To investigate whether there is a causal relationship between these two variables, a growing number of scholars employed priming religious concepts and measure its influence on prosocial behavior (e.g., Pichon, Boccato, & Saroglou, 2007). In the recent development of religious priming, Ritter and Preston (2013) argued that different primes (agent prime, spiritual/abstract prime, and institutional prime) may also have varying influence on prosocial behavior specifically helping an ingroup or an outgroup target. With this in mind, a 2 (social categorization of the target of help) by 3 (agent prime, institutional prime, spiritual prime) experiment was conducted to directly investigate this hypothesis. Results suggest that priming religious concepts especially the spiritual prime can increase prosocial behaviors. However, no significant effect was found on the social categorization which implies that Filipino participants elicit prosocial behavior regardless of the social categorization (be it ingroup or outgroup) of the target of help. The present study’s findings contribute to further the literature on religious priming and its influence on prosocial behavior. PsychOpen 2016-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5114877/ /pubmed/27872671 http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1170 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Batara, Jame Bryan L. Franco, Pamela S. Quiachon, Mequia Angelo M. Sembrero, Dianelle Rose M.
spellingShingle	Batara, Jame Bryan L. Franco, Pamela S. Quiachon, Mequia Angelo M. Sembrero, Dianelle Rose M. Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup
author_facet	Batara, Jame Bryan L. Franco, Pamela S. Quiachon, Mequia Angelo M. Sembrero, Dianelle Rose M.
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title	Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup
title_short	Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup
title_full	Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup
title_fullStr	Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup
title_full_unstemmed	Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup
title_sort	effects of religious priming concepts on prosocial behavior towards ingroup and outgroup
description	Several studies show that there is a connection between religion and prosociality (e.g., Saroglou, 2013). To investigate whether there is a causal relationship between these two variables, a growing number of scholars employed priming religious concepts and measure its influence on prosocial behavior (e.g., Pichon, Boccato, & Saroglou, 2007). In the recent development of religious priming, Ritter and Preston (2013) argued that different primes (agent prime, spiritual/abstract prime, and institutional prime) may also have varying influence on prosocial behavior specifically helping an ingroup or an outgroup target. With this in mind, a 2 (social categorization of the target of help) by 3 (agent prime, institutional prime, spiritual prime) experiment was conducted to directly investigate this hypothesis. Results suggest that priming religious concepts especially the spiritual prime can increase prosocial behaviors. However, no significant effect was found on the social categorization which implies that Filipino participants elicit prosocial behavior regardless of the social categorization (be it ingroup or outgroup) of the target of help. The present study’s findings contribute to further the literature on religious priming and its influence on prosocial behavior.
publisher	PsychOpen
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Effects of Religious Priming Concepts on Prosocial Behavior Towards Ingroup and Outgroup

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