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Stavrova, Olga ORCID: 0000-0002-6079-4151 and Siegers, Pascal (2014). Religious Prosociality and Morality Across Cultures How Social Enforcement of Religion Shapes the Effects of Personal Religiosity on Prosocial and Moral Attitudes and Behaviors. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull., 40 (3). S. 315 - 334. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-7433

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Abstract

The question of whether religiosity is linked to prosocial behavior is currently hotly debated in psychology. This research contributes to this debate by showing that the nature of individuals' religious orientations and their relationships to prosociality depend on their country's social enforcement of religiosity. Our analyses of data from more than 70 countries indicate that in countries with no social pressure to follow a religion, religious individuals are more likely to endorse an intrinsic religious orientation (Study 1), engage in charity work (Study 2), disapprove of lying in their own interests (Study 3), and are less likely to engage in fraudulent behaviors (Study 4) compared with non-religious individuals. Ironically, in secular contexts, religious individuals are also more likely to condemn certain moral choices than non-religious individuals (Study 2). These effects of religiosity substantially weaken (and ultimately disappear) with increasing national levels of social enforcement of religiosity.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Stavrova, Olga UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6079-4151 UNSPECIFIED Siegers, Pascal UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-445011
DOI:	10.1177/0146167213510951
Journal or Publication Title:	Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull.
Volume:	40
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 315 - 334
Date:	2014
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-7433
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; EXTRINSIC REWARDS; PEOPLE HAPPY; METAANALYSIS; INDIVIDUALS; HAPPINESS; CONTEXT; CHOICE; BELIEF Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44501