God priming increases both generosity and felt watching only in believers

Evidence

Now, let us look at evidence for each of these three possibilities. First, several experiments clearly separate the felt presence of a watchful supernatural agent from prosocial outcomes. The study by Ap Dijksterhuis and his colleagues, discussed earlier, found that after being subliminally primed with the word God, believers (but not nonbelievers) were more likely to ascribe an outcome to an external source of agency, rather than their own actions. … Similarly, in a series of experiments I conducted with Will Gervais, we found that the same religious priming instrument that increases generosity in economic games also increased feelings of being watched or monitored, but again primarily for believers. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 160

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s analytical project: the felt-watching mechanism (Norenzayan’s Big God) maps onto Father Rodrigues’s perceived divine gaze and its morally constitutive role. Also corroborates the Sunday Effect finding already cited.
• ADDENDUM: Provides the empirical backbone for the claim that omniscient-gaze perceptions drive prosocial behavior among believers, which is the exact mechanism being tested against Scripture and the fumi-e sequence.