Religiously motivated prosociality targets in-groups and racism targets outgroups

Evidence

Believers practice religion with other same-race members and, thus, may view people of other races as members of outgroups. Believers are likely to distinguish between their faith and the faith of others, and to generalize this distinction to other attributes and personal characteristics. Given that the prosocial conduct religions encourage in their members is mostly directed at in-group targets (Haidt, 2012; Norenzayan, 2013), Hall et al.’s (2010) explanation accounts for the relations of religiosity with both racism and prosociality: Racism is meant to derogate the outgroup and prosociality is meant to help the in-group. — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 15

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chronic, communal, in-group religious practice drives the prosociality effect — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 183; Religious cues elicit prosociality only toward perceived co-religionists — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 215; Religious group solidarity organizes others into outgroups by identity — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 77 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious cues elicit prosociality only toward perceived co-religionists #corroborates (0.88) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 215
• Religious group solidarity organizes others into outgroups by identity #expands (0.82) — Deborah L. Hall and David C. Matz and Wendy Wood, Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A…, 77
• Religion fosters prejudice via intergroup bias, meaning-making threat, and authoritarianism. #corroborates (0.80) — Alexandra Snell, Miron Zuckerman, and Bonnie M. Le, Does Religious Priming Induce Greater…, 5
• Chronic, communal, in-group religious practice drives the prosociality effect #expands (0.78) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 183
• In-group glorification but not attachment predicts justifying harm against out-groups #exemplifies (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2115
• Religious groups distinguish proscribed from nonproscribed prejudices #qualifies (0.73)
• Racism repositions its targets from repentable sinners to unregenerable vermin #exemplifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 209