Religious primes fail to affect atheists, disproving a purely ideomotor account

Evidence

Second, while we ponder the question of whether atheism can penetrate deep into the human psyche, it will become clear that, as described later in some detail, at least some atheists are unresponsive to nonconscious religious primes. This speaks against an ideomotor account, because everyone, including nonbelievers, is aware of (though does not necessarily endorse) the association between religious concepts and benevolence. Therefore, if ideomotor processes are all that is needed to get these effects, awareness should be sufficient to trigger priming effects. Yet some nonbelievers are impervious to priming effects. Other factors must be operating, and the most likely alternative possibility, as we have seen, is supernatural monitoring. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 161