Merely reminding people of religious ritual raises how many sacred values they claim.
Evidence
The results of Study 1 provide correlative evidence for the hypothesis that greater participation in religious ritual increases the likelihood of people reporting that a preference is a sacred value. In our second study we were interested in investigating whether priming reminders of participation in religious ritual would cause people to claim more sacred values. Question order in surveys has been shown to influence responses because a question primes cognitive constructs that can temporarily influence subsequent questions (Schwarz & Sudman, 1996). Building on this finding, we randomly varied, using a between subjects design, whether participants answered a sacred values questionnaire before or after answering questions about religiosity. This allowed us to test whether reminders of religious ritual would increase the number of preferences (religious or non-religious) that people claim as sacred values. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 30
Categorization
- XREF: Directly extends the reader’s core question: threat and ritual as manufactured drivers of sacred commitment, paralleling the priming effects discussed in the threat-hardening and backfire literature from other sources in this batch. — connects to: Merely reminding Muslims of their religiosity increases how many values they call sacred — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 37; 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
Related
- Merely reminding Muslims of their religiosity increases how many values they call sacred (similarity 0.94)
- Participation in religious ritual creates sacred values, especially under group threat. (similarity 0.92)
- Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics. (similarity 0.92)
- Ritual participation plus perceived threat converts disputed preferences into sacred values. (similarity 0.89)
- Participation in religious ritual and perceived group threat jointly make people sacralize preferences. (similarity 0.89)
- Participation in religious ritual, not broader psychological traits, predicts sacred values. (similarity 0.88)
- Perceived out-group threat amplifies ritual-driven sacralization of values. (similarity 0.87)
- Sacred values can form quickly through ritual and perceived group threat. (similarity 0.86)
- External threat drives groups to ritualize preferences into sacred values (similarity 0.83)
- Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran — Religion, group threat and sacred values (similarity 0.83)
- Religiosity predicts sacred values independent of demographics and politics. (similarity 0.82)
- Sacred values bind group identity and give groups advantage through non-rational commitment. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Merely reminding Muslims of their religiosity increases how many values they call sacred
#exemplifies(1.00) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 37 - Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics.
#expands(0.85) — 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.
#expands(0.85) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 16