Does religious belief promote prosociality? A critical examination.

LW Galen - Psychological bulletin, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Numerous authors have suggested that religious belief has a positive association, possibly
causal, with prosocial behavior. This article critiques evidence regarding this “religious …

Religiosity predicts prosociality, especially when measured by self-report: A meta-analysis of almost 60 years of research.

JM Kelly, SR Kramer, AF Shariff - Psychological Bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This meta-analysis explores the long-standing and heavily debated question of whether
religiosity is associated with prosocial and antisocial behavior at the individual level. In an …

Why don't we practice what we preach? A meta-analytic review of religious racism

DL Hall, DC Matz, W Wood - Personality and social …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
A meta-analytic review of past research evaluated the link between religiosity and racism in
the United States since the Civil Rights Act. Religious racism partly reflects intergroup …

[BOOK][B] The nonreligious: Understanding secular people and societies

P Zuckerman, LW Galen, FL Pasquale - 2016 - books.google.com
The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …

Ethical consumers among the millennials: A cross-national study

T Bucic, J Harris, D Arli - Journal of business ethics, 2012 - Springer
Using two samples drawn from contrasting developed and develo** countries, this
investigation considers the powerful, unique Millennial consumer group and their …

Religion, spirituality, and altruism.

V Saroglou - 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
The world religions proclaim prosocial values (Habito & Inaba, 2006), but it is still unclear
whether these values translate into behaviors (Ellens, 2007) and whether they are really …

SSSR presidential address rain dances in the dry season: Overcoming the religious congruence fallacy

M Chaves - Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Religious congruence refers to consistency among an individual's religious beliefs and
attitudes, consistency between religious ideas and behavior, and religious ideas, identities …

[BOOK][B] Why gods persist: A scientific approach to religion

RA Hinde, R Hinde - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
What is it about religion that appeals to people? Why do religions and religious beliefs
persist in the face of increasing secularisation, harsh criticism and even political …

Prosocial bystander behavior in bullying dynamics: Assessing the impact of social capital

CBR Evans, PR Smokowski - Journal of youth and adolescence, 2015 - Springer
Individuals who observe a bullying event, but are not directly involved as a bully or victim,
are referred to as bystanders. Prosocial bystanders are those individuals who actively …

Religiosity and adolescent empathy and aggression: The mediating role of moral identity.

SA Hardy, LJ Walker, DD Rackham… - Psychology of Religion …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The mechanism by which adolescent religiosity might yield positive interactions with others
remains unclear. This study examined moral identity as a mediator between adolescent …