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The Implicit Legacy of American Protestantism

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ID2314534
AuthorsEric Luis Uhlmann (0000-0002-6362-9936, HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France, corresponding author), Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks (University of Michigan), Jeffrey Sanchez‐Burks (0000-0002-9616-4282, University of Michigan)
Year2014
Volume45
Issue6
Pages992-1006
Publication date2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022022114527344
OpenAlexW2122958969
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited68

The heritage of a nation founded by devout Puritan Protestants has had wide-ranging effects on U.S. culture and, as experimental evidence suggests, continues to exert an implicit influence on the feelings, judgments, and behaviors of contemporary Americans. The United States is distinguished by a faith in individual merit and traditional values uncommon among economically developed democracies, both of which have been traced, in part, to the moral ideals of the founding Protestant communities. Calvinist Protestantism has further profoundly shaped American workways, including the moralization of work and the manifestation of professional norms that prescribe impersonal and unemotional workplace interactions. The implicit influence of traditional Protestant beliefs extends not only to devout American Protestants, but even to non-Protestant and less-religious Americans

Faith · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Protestant work ethic · Protestantism · Sociology · Theology · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year1,22
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
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