Religious priming method does not meaningfully alter prejudice outcomes

Evidence

We did not find that the type of prime significantly moderated the relationship between religious priming and prejudice. It should be noted that Shariff et al. (2016) found effect sizes for each type of prime that were roughly comparable (although they did not formally test type of prime as a moderator variable). It is possible then that each priming method may be effective to the same degree. However, the power for this test was somewhat low (.71) and, thus, there is a chance that we failed to find an effect that does exist. — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 103

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether priming method truly doesn’t matter remains unresolved given low statistical power of .71; a higher-powered replication could find moderation.
• XREF: connects to: Religious priming transfers prejudice most strongly toward LGBT and atheist targets — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 40; Buddhist priming lowers prejudice but not uniformly across targets — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 104; 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 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious priming causally increases prejudice toward LGBT people and atheists #contradicts (0.95) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 108
• Religious priming produces real but small and sometimes unreliable effects #qualifies (0.85) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 95
• Religiosity-prejudice links are correlational, not established as causal #expands (0.82) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 25
• Religious priming effects appear only in published, not unpublished, studies #qualifies (0.82) — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 41
• Type of religious prime may not moderate prejudice outcomes #corroborates (0.80) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 103
• Implicit religious priming only affects believers, not committed atheists #qualifies (0.78)
• Correlational meta-analyses cannot establish causal links between religion and prejudice. #corroborates (0.75) — Annetta Snell and Miron Zuckerman and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 2