Is Buddha tolerant? Eastern religiosity as related to low prejudice.
(2013) Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference — Location: New Orleans, Louisiana (17.January.2013)
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- Research on religiosity and prejudice in the last decades has almost been limited to Christian Westerners. Religiosity has thus been found to predict prejudice against ethnic, religious, and moral outgroups. Do these findings also apply to Eastern religions and cultures? Is the (positive) relation between religiosity and prejudice universal? This question was addressed through two studies carried out within different populations. In Study 1, religiosity of Taiwanese people of Buddhist and Taoist tradition was found to predict low prejudice against various religious outgroups. In Study 2, priming supraliminally Westerners converted to Buddhism with Buddhist words lead to decreased islamophobia and prejudice against ethnic, religious and moral outgroups. These findings challenge earlier research and suggest that the religiosity–prejudice relation may depend on the specific religious and cultural context.
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Clobert, M., & Saroglou, V. (2013). Is Buddha tolerant? Eastern religiosity as related to low prejudice. Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/62742