Religious priming increases prejudice more outside the United States than within it.

Evidence

We also tested the moderating effect of study location, comparing studies conducted in the US to studies conducted outside the US. This effect was small but significant, b = .07, 95% CI [.01, .13], p =.026, and power to detect this effect was .76. The relationship between religious priming and prejudice was significant for both U.S.-based studies, r = .05, (.02, 08), p = .003, and studies outside the United States, r = .12, (.06, .17), p < .001, but the effect was smaller for the former. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 83

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would the priming effect be larger outside the US? Potentially because in the US ‘religious’ and ‘prejudice against outgroups’ are more confounded in baseline culture, so the prime is less discriminating — worth investigating.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about whether professed/contextual religious signals predict actual bias — studies outside the US where religion is the majority default may capture automatic rather than socially-desirable responding. — connects to: Religious priming elevates prejudice against LGBT people and atheists beyond other targets. — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 40; Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 108

Related

• Type of religious prime may not moderate prejudice outcomes (similarity 0.85)
• Religious priming elevates prejudice against LGBT people and atheists beyond other targets. (similarity 0.85)
• A small religious-priming prejudice effect can still matter cumulatively when widespread. (similarity 0.85)
• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists (similarity 0.85)
• Religious priming method does not meaningfully alter prejudice outcomes (similarity 0.84)
• Religious priming effects appear only in published, not unpublished, studies (similarity 0.83)
• Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-atheist prejudice tracks wherever religious majorities dominate (similarity 0.82)
• Religious priming transfers prejudice most strongly toward LGBT and atheist targets (similarity 0.82)
• Eastern religious primes reduce prejudice more than Western ones do (similarity 0.82)
• Prejudice may drive people toward religion, not only vice versa (similarity 0.81)
• Religious priming produces real but small and sometimes unreliable effects (similarity 0.81)
• Religious primes influence even nonreligious people through mere cultural knowledge (similarity 0.81)
• Prior religion-prejudice meta-analyses were purely correlational and each studied one target group. (similarity 0.81)
• Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le — Does Religious Priming Induce Greater Prejudice? A Meta-Analytic Review (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists #corroborates (0.75) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 108