Religious cues affect nonreligious people as well because secular cultures preserve their meanings.
Evidence
Due to low power, the question of whether religiosity moderates religious priming effects was not tested. The literature suggests, however, that reminders of religion may be impactful even for those who do not hold religious views. As Norris and Inglehart (2011) note, the legacy of religious traditions continues to shape worldviews even in highly secular societies (p. 17). Nonreligious people are well-versed in the meaning and implication of religious cues regarding outgroups. Increasing the salience of these cues may thus increase the salience of their implications for religious and nonreligious participants alike. — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 93
Categorization
- XREF: Norris and Inglehart’s ‘legacy of religious traditions shaping worldviews even in secular societies’ parallels ideas about cultural residue/cryptomnesia that Norenzayan and others invoke to explain secular persistence of religious intuitions. — connects to: Religious priming affects nonreligious people too because secular worldviews retain religion’s legacy — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 93; Religious primes influence even nonreligious people through mere cultural knowledge — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 94; The religious and secular are not essentially fixed categories. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 103 (+1 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that semantic knowledge of a cue’s outgroup meaning makes the priming effect work even in nonbelievers reframes the mechanism from intrinsic religious conviction to shared cultural literacy about what these cues signify - which has implications for how generalizable religious-priming effects really are across target categories.
Broader Connections
- Religious priming affects nonreligious people too because secular worldviews retain religion’s legacy
#corroborates(0.99) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 93 - Religious primes influence even nonreligious people through mere cultural knowledge
#expands(0.90) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 94 - The religious and secular are co-constitutive, not opposed spheres
#expands(0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 501 - The religious and secular are not essentially fixed categories.
#qualifies(0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 103