When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism.
Motivated thinking leads people to perceive similarity between the self and ingroups, but under some conditions, people may recognize that personal beliefs are misaligned with the beliefs of ingroups. In two focal experiments and two replications, we find evidence that perceived belief similarity mo...
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| description | Motivated thinking leads people to perceive similarity between the self and ingroups, but under some conditions, people may recognize that personal beliefs are misaligned with the beliefs of ingroups. In two focal experiments and two replications, we find evidence that perceived belief similarity moderates ingroup favoritism. As part of a charity donation task, participants donated money to a community charity or a religious charity. Compared to non-religious people, Christians favored religious charities, but within Christians, conservative Christians favored religious charities more than liberal Christians did. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the perceived political beliefs of the charity accounted for the differences in ingroup favoritism between liberal and conservative Christians. While reporting little awareness of the influence of ideology, Christian conservatives favored religious charities because they perceived them as conservative and liberal Christians favored the community charity because they perceived it as liberal. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2505be8b52fe48ce8efa38d33682501a2022-12-22T00:03:22ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-01712e5094510.1371/journal.pone.0050945When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism.Carlee Beth HawkinsBrian A NosekMotivated thinking leads people to perceive similarity between the self and ingroups, but under some conditions, people may recognize that personal beliefs are misaligned with the beliefs of ingroups. In two focal experiments and two replications, we find evidence that perceived belief similarity moderates ingroup favoritism. As part of a charity donation task, participants donated money to a community charity or a religious charity. Compared to non-religious people, Christians favored religious charities, but within Christians, conservative Christians favored religious charities more than liberal Christians did. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the perceived political beliefs of the charity accounted for the differences in ingroup favoritism between liberal and conservative Christians. While reporting little awareness of the influence of ideology, Christian conservatives favored religious charities because they perceived them as conservative and liberal Christians favored the community charity because they perceived it as liberal.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3521003?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Carlee Beth Hawkins Brian A Nosek When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. PLoS ONE |
| title | When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. |
| title_full | When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. |
| title_fullStr | When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. |
| title_full_unstemmed | When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. |
| title_short | When ingroups aren't "In": perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. |
| title_sort | when ingroups aren t in perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3521003?pdf=render |
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