Religious priming boosts prosocial behavior only for believers, not non-believers.

Evidence

Atheism thought to be skin-deep: Boyer, 2008, p. 1039; Bloom, 2007, p. 148. In a recent statistical analysis of all known religious priming studies, we found that religious priming reliably increases prosocial behavior for believers, but the effect was inconsistent and unreliable overall for non-believers (Shariff, Willard, Andersen, & Norenzayan, unpublished data). — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 713

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the mechanism behind supernaturally-monitored prosociality in believers that the reader is tracing toward Rodrigues’ faith-driven behavior. — 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; Dependence primes increase rated dependence only for female, not male, targets. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 221