The social psychology of religion: Understanding religious prejudice (Symposium).
(2012) International Congress of Psychology — Location: Cape-Town, South-Africa (22.July.2012)
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- Since Gordon W. Allport's groundbreaking studies on the relation between religion and prejudice (Allport, 1950; 1954; Allport & Ross, 1967), his conclusion that religion both makes and unmakes prejudice is crucial for both Social Psychology and Psychology of Religion. Recent research has shed light on diverse religious orientations which differ in their relation to prejudice, on differing targets of prejudice, on possible moderators and mediators of the relation between religion and prejudice, and on general psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship (Hall, Matz, & Wood, 2010; Hood, Hill, & Spilka, 2009); Hunsberger & Jackson, 2005). Our panel presents a series of recent studies discovering how religious orientations and several types of prejudice are intertwined. The first paper (Henseler, Carvacho & Zick) includes a number of studies about the relation between religious beliefs and Group Focused Enmity (GFE) and of social dominance orientation (SDO) as an important mediator of this relation. The second paper (Clobert & Saroglou) presents findings of a priming study wherein primes of religious outgroups (Buddhists, Muslims) increased or decreased prosociality depending on the valence attributed to the respective religious outgroup. The third paper presents results of a study wherein several Implicit Association Tests (IATs) have been employed to measure inter-religious prejudice on the implicit level of cognition (Klein & Streib). The fourth paper (Blogowska & Saroglou) takes a closer look at the question whether religious prejudice towards homosexuals might lead to concrete physical aggression or not by presenting a study using the hot sauce allocation paradigm.
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Klein, C., & Clobert, M. (2012). The social psychology of religion: Understanding religious prejudice (Symposium). International Congress of Psychology, Cape-Town, South-Africa. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/47426