Religious priming affects nonreligious people too because secular worldviews retain religion’s legacy

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. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 93

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reading purpose on manufactured external enemies: secular ideological communities may inherit religion’s outgroup cueing rather than escape it. — connects to: Theistic religious primes activate in-group identity while nontheistic ones activate universalism. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 28; 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; Implicit religious priming only affects believers, not committed atheists (+2 more)
• QUESTION: Would a manufactured-enemy cue (nationalist, ideological) similarly prime non-members who reject the ideology but share its cultural legacy?

Related

• Religious cues affect nonreligious people as well because secular cultures preserve their meanings. (similarity 0.89)
• Religious primes influence even nonreligious people through mere cultural knowledge (similarity 0.88)
• Theistic religious primes activate in-group identity while nontheistic ones activate universalism. (similarity 0.84)
• Type of religious prime may not moderate prejudice outcomes (similarity 0.84)
• Religious priming boosts prosocial behavior only for believers, not non-believers. (similarity 0.84)
• Religious priming produces real but small and sometimes unreliable effects (similarity 0.84)
• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists (similarity 0.83)
• Religious primes vary in depth of awareness and mechanism of effect (similarity 0.81)
• Religious priming elevates prejudice against LGBT people and atheists beyond other targets. (similarity 0.81)
• A small religious-priming prejudice effect can still matter cumulatively when widespread. (similarity 0.81)
• Religious primes fail to affect atheists, disproving a purely ideomotor account (similarity 0.80)
• Nonconscious religious primes reliably affect believers but only inconsistently affect atheists. (similarity 0.79)
• Eastern religious primes reduce prejudice more than Western ones do (similarity 0.79)
• Religious priming method does not meaningfully alter prejudice outcomes (similarity 0.79)
• Religious priming increases prejudice more outside the United States than within it. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Religious primes influence even nonreligious people through mere cultural knowledge #corroborates (0.85) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 94
• Nonconscious religious primes reliably affect believers but only inconsistently affect atheists. #contradicts (0.85) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 179
• Implicit religious priming only affects believers, not committed atheists #contradicts (0.80)
• Religious priming boosts prosocial behavior only for believers, not non-believers. #contradicts (0.75) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 713