Buddhist primes may reduce prejudice rather than increase it

Evidence

We focused our analysis on studies of monotheistic religions that primed participants with their own religion. Priming religion in other religious contexts might have a different overall effect. Buddhist primes have been found to decrease prejudice toward ethnic and religious targets, although this effect is less consistent for atheist and sexual minority targets (Clobert et al., 2015; Ramsay et al., 2014). Clobert et al. (2015) suggests that it is possible that some of the potential drivers of prejudice in Western religions (e.g., dogmatism and rigidity) are attenuated within Eastern religions, such as Buddhism. — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104

Categorization

• QUESTION: This suggests religious priming effects may be religion- and culture-specific — worth checking what drivers (dogmatism/rigidity) mediate in Western monotheistic contexts.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading on religious in-group priming transfer; this qualifies that the target specificity found may not generalize to non-monotheistic primes. — connects to: Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 108; Eastern religious primes reduce prejudice more than Western ones do — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104; Type of religious prime may not moderate prejudice outcomes — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 103 (+1 more)

Related

• Eastern religious primes reduce prejudice more than Western ones do (similarity 0.96)
• Buddhist priming lowers prejudice but not uniformly across targets (similarity 0.95)
• Type of religious prime may not moderate prejudice outcomes (similarity 0.88)
• Religious priming produces real but small and sometimes unreliable effects (similarity 0.85)
• Religious priming method does not meaningfully alter prejudice outcomes (similarity 0.84)
• A small religious-priming prejudice effect can still matter cumulatively when widespread. (similarity 0.83)
• Religious priming elevates prejudice against LGBT people and atheists beyond other targets. (similarity 0.83)
• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists (similarity 0.82)
• Theistic religious primes activate in-group identity while nontheistic ones activate universalism. (similarity 0.82)
• Religious primes influence even nonreligious people through mere cultural knowledge (similarity 0.82)
• Religious primes vary in depth of awareness and mechanism of effect (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice may drive people toward religion, not only vice versa (similarity 0.81)
• Religious priming transfers prejudice most strongly toward LGBT and atheist targets (similarity 0.81)
• Religious priming effects appear only in published, not unpublished, studies (similarity 0.81)
• Religious priming increases prejudice more outside the United States than within it. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Eastern religious primes reduce prejudice more than Western ones do #expands (0.85) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104
• Type of religious prime may not moderate prejudice outcomes #qualifies (0.80) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 103
• Religious primes vary in depth of awareness and mechanism of effect #expands (0.75) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 24