Intrinsic religiosity tracks tolerance only on overt, community-proscribed measures

Evidence

We suspect that Allport might be more surprised and troubled by what the use of less reactive measures has revealed about the relation between his Intrinsic scale and prejudice. It now seems that the relationship between higher scores on the Intrinsic scale and lower scores on measures of prejudice and ethnocentrism that he stated with such confidence during the 1960s applies only to reactive, overt measures of prejudices proscribed by one’s religious community. When assessing prejudices not clearly proscribed or when using more covert measures, scores on the Intrinsic scale are more likely to be positively correlated with prejudice. Rather than the personal transformation toward tolerance that Allport assumed was associated with intrinsic religion, higher scores on the Intrinsic scale appear to be associated with an increased desire to look unprejudiced – or to look prejudiced only toward the right people and groups. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2559