Strangers perceived as religious are trusted with more money

Evidence

In a variation of this trust experiment, Tan and Vogel measured individual differences in the religiosity of the proposer and the responder in a German sample. In addition, in some trials, proposers knew about the level of religiosity of the responder but nothing else. Results indicated that: … More money was forwarded to responders perceived to be religious, indicating that believers are trusted more than nonbelievers. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 217

Categorization

• XREF: Direct empirical warrant for partner choice theory (Baumard et al.): religious markers function as costly honest signals of cooperative disposition, which is precisely why public apostasy rituals dismantle the partner-choice value of visible religiosity.
• QUESTION: Does the effect hold when proposers know the responder is religious by creed but publicly known to have apostasized under pressure? The fumi-e experiment untested in this literature.