Participation in religious ritual, not broader psychological traits, predicts sacred values.
Evidence
The extent of participation in religious ritual was correlated with the number of reported sacred values: r = .10, t(326) = 1.76, pone-tailed = .040. Notably, neither the need for closure measure nor the disgust sensitivity measure were positively correlated with the sacred value score, t(311) = −1.31, pone-tailed = . and t(317) = −1.07, pone-tailed = .857, respectively. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 26
Categorization
- XREF: Directly continues the reader’s thread on the threat-to-sacralization pathway — ritual participation, not need-for-closure or disgust, driving sacred values narrows the causal account to participation itself. — 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; Sacred values can form quickly through ritual and perceived group threat. — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 8; 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 (+5 more)
- QUESTION: Why would need-for-closure and disgust sensitivity have no predictive power here? They might matter in initial belief formation but not in the value-sacralization of an already-held cause.
Related
- Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics. (similarity 0.95)
- Participation in religious ritual creates sacred values, especially under group threat. (similarity 0.93)
- Ritual participation plus perceived threat converts disputed preferences into sacred values. (similarity 0.91)
- Participation in religious ritual and perceived group threat jointly make people sacralize preferences. (similarity 0.91)
- Merely reminding Muslims of their religiosity increases how many values they call sacred (similarity 0.89)
- Sacred values can form quickly through ritual and perceived group threat. (similarity 0.89)
- Merely reminding people of religious ritual raises how many sacred values they claim. (similarity 0.88)
- Perceived out-group threat amplifies ritual-driven sacralization of values. (similarity 0.88)
- Religiosity predicts sacred values independent of demographics and politics. (similarity 0.86)
- External threat drives groups to ritualize preferences into sacred values (similarity 0.84)
- Religion bundles separable traits whose conflict roles must be disaggregated (similarity 0.82)
- Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran — Religion, group threat and sacred values (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Religious ritual converts secular values into sacred ones that harden conflict
#corroborates(0.88) - Ritual participation plus perceived threat converts disputed preferences into sacred values.
#expands(0.85) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 58 - Religious ritual participation increases sacred values even on non-religious topics.
#expands(0.82) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 29 - Religiosity predicts sacred values independent of demographics and politics.
#contradicts(0.80) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 26 - Perceived out-group threat amplifies ritual-driven sacralization of values.
#expands(0.80) — Hammad Sheikh and Jeremy Ginges and Alin Coman and Scott Atran, Religion, group threat and sacred values, 45