Batara Jame Bryan L, Franco Pamela S, Quiachon Mequia Angelo M, Sembrero Dianelle Rose M
Department of Psychology, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines.
Eur J Psychol. 2016 Nov 18;12(4):635-644. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1170. eCollection 2016 Nov.
Several studies show that there is a connection between religion and prosociality (e.g., Saroglou, 2013). To investigate whether there is a causal relationship between these two variables, a growing number of scholars employed priming religious concepts and measure its influence on prosocial behavior (e.g., Pichon, Boccato, & Saroglou, 2007). In the recent development of religious priming, Ritter and Preston (2013) argued that different primes (agent prime, spiritual/abstract prime, and institutional prime) may also have varying influence on prosocial behavior specifically helping an ingroup or an outgroup target. With this in mind, a 2 (social categorization of the target of help) by 3 (agent prime, institutional prime, spiritual prime) experiment was conducted to directly investigate this hypothesis. Results suggest that priming religious concepts especially the spiritual prime can increase prosocial behaviors. However, no significant effect was found on the social categorization which implies that Filipino participants elicit prosocial behavior regardless of the social categorization (be it ingroup or outgroup) of the target of help. The present study's findings contribute to further the literature on religious priming and its influence on prosocial behavior.
多项研究表明宗教与亲社会行为之间存在关联（例如，萨罗格卢，2013年）。为了探究这两个变量之间是否存在因果关系，越来越多的学者采用启动宗教概念并测量其对亲社会行为的影响（例如，皮雄、博卡托和萨罗格卢，2007年）。在宗教启动的最新发展中，里特和普雷斯顿（2013年）认为不同的启动因素（施动者启动因素、精神/抽象启动因素和机构启动因素）可能对亲社会行为也有不同影响，具体而言是对帮助内群体或外群体目标的影响。考虑到这一点，进行了一项2（帮助对象的社会分类）×3（施动者启动因素、机构启动因素、精神启动因素）的实验，以直接探究这一假设。结果表明，启动宗教概念，尤其是精神启动因素，可以增加亲社会行为。然而，在社会分类方面未发现显著影响，这意味着菲律宾参与者无论帮助对象的社会分类（是内群体还是外群体）如何都会引发亲社会行为。本研究的结果有助于进一步丰富关于宗教启动及其对亲社会行为影响的文献。
