The divergent effects of prayer on cheating

Some research suggests that reminders of religious beliefs and concepts can decrease immoral behavior, such as cheating, via fear of supernatural punishment among other mechanisms. However, one of the most common natural religious primes, petitionary prayer, could in theory have the opposite effect,...

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Authors: Alogna, Victoria K. (Author) ; Halberstadt, Jamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2020]
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 365-378
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Supernatural being / Control / Punishment / Prayer / Moral act / Fraud
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B Cheating
B divine attributions
B supernatural monitoring and punishment
B Prayer
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)