Merely reminding Muslims of their religiosity increases how many values they call sacred

Evidence

There was a reliable effect of condition on the number of sacred values, t(39.51) = −1.90, pone-tailed= .033, d = 0.53. As expected, people who were reminded of their religiosity beforehand reported more sacred values (M = 15.85, SD = 3.11) than those who were not (M = 13.50, SD = 5.49). This finding held even when six items containing explicit religious content (e.g., mandatory school prayers) were excluded from the sacred values measure: t(43.56) = −1.85, pone-tailed = .036, d = 0.51. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s threat-to-sacralization and Atran sacred-values line: here a mere identity prime (not threat) inflates the number of sacred values declared, hinting that professed sacredness is partly a state-sensitive identity performance rather than a fixed internal commitment. — connects to: Merely reminding people of religious ritual raises how many sacred values they claim. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 30; Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 29; Participation in religious ritual creates sacred values, especially under group threat. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 16 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: The effect inflates COUNT but not necessarily conviction strength or downstream refusal — does verbal sacred-value-claiming under prime predict actual behavioral willingness to sacrifice or fuse with the group?

Related

• Merely reminding people of religious ritual raises how many sacred values they claim. (similarity 0.94)
• Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics. (similarity 0.90)
• Participation in religious ritual creates sacred values, especially under group threat. (similarity 0.89)
• Participation in religious ritual, not broader psychological traits, predicts sacred values. (similarity 0.89)
• Ritual participation plus perceived threat converts disputed preferences into sacred values. (similarity 0.87)
• Participation in religious ritual and perceived group threat jointly make people sacralize preferences. (similarity 0.86)
• Sacred values can form quickly through ritual and perceived group threat. (similarity 0.84)
• Perceived out-group threat amplifies ritual-driven sacralization of values. (similarity 0.83)
• Religiosity predicts sacred values independent of demographics and politics. (similarity 0.83)
• Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran — Religion, group threat and sacred values (similarity 0.82)
• External threat drives groups to ritualize preferences into sacred values (similarity 0.80)
• Sacred values resist material incentives and are best countered only by rival sacred values. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics. #corroborates (0.85) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 29
• Religious ritual converts secular values into sacred ones that harden conflict #corroborates (0.82)
• Ritual participation plus perceived threat converts disputed preferences into sacred values. #corroborates (0.80) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 58
• Participation in religious ritual creates sacred values, especially under group threat. #corroborates (0.78) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 16
• Participation in religious ritual, not broader psychological traits, predicts sacred values. #expands (0.78) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 26