Representations of Religious Words
Insights for Religious Priming Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2287617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan S Ritter (Department of Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, corresponding author), Jesse L Preston (0000-0003-1708-221X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 494-507 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jssr.12042 |
| OpenAlex | W2133573535 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 40 |
Researchers often expose participants to a series of words (e.g., religion, God, faith) to activate religious concepts and observe their subsequent effects on people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This research has revealed many important effects of experimentally manipulated religious cognition in domains ranging from prosocial behavior to prejudice. However, it is not exactly clear what constitutes a 'religious cognition,' and no research has yet investigated conceptual distinctions between different kinds of religious prime words. In the present research we used a card-sorting task to examine laypeople's subjective understanding of religious prime words, and the central categories or dimensions of these religious concepts. Using multidimensional scaling, property fitting, and cluster analysis methods to analyze the proximities among the words, we find evidence for the mental representation of three relatively distinct kinds of religious concepts: agents (e.g., God, angel), spiritual/abstract (e.g., faith, belief), and institutional/concrete (e.g., shrine, scripture). Theoretical and methodological impli-cations for religious priming research are discussed
Cognition · Epistemology · Faith · Feeling · Mental representation · Politics · Prime (order theory) · Priming (agriculture) · Prosocial behavior · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Research
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Nonconscious influences of religion on prosociality
Personal religious orientation and prejudice
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Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |