Culture and Religion

10 important questions on Culture and Religion

What is the advantage of supernatural monitoring for the regulation of group behavior

one’s behavior is thought to be observed, even in the absence of other group members. Because people think god is watching them, even when there is no one else around, they will attempt to lead lives they consider to be virtuous.

What is a lexically prime

They had to unscramble five word sentences, each containing an extra word 
that needed to be dropped.
- So for instance, felt she eradicate spirit the becomes she felt the spirit
- And dessert divine was for the becomes the dessert was divine
- Five of the scrambled sentences contained target words, “divine, spirit, God, sacred, and prophet”
- And five contained only neutral words, “civic, duty, court, police, contract”

In which country's is it common to have terror managemant and what are the difference between man and woman?

It is shown that it's common in every country and the difference between man en woman are that if man are reminded of the death their desire is to have more childeren and this is not the samen for woman because For women, having children interferes with another important life goal - one’s 
career.
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What is the relation between TMT and fame

People report a greater desire for personal fame as well as greater interest in other people who are famous when reminded of their own death.

 what is the relation between TMT and iconography

- People place greater significance in relevant cultural icons after considering their own mortality

Explain what the scrooge effect is 

- Those who were stopped in front of the funeral home were more likely to 
endorse the charities and were three times more likely to report that kindness and generosity were values of personal importance.
- People were also more willing to give money to an American charity - but only an American charity. The manipulation had no impact on willingness to donate to foreigners.


People will act prosocially toward their own group when primed with 
mortality, but why aren't people helping outgroup members when reminded to mortality? 

Symbolic immortality is gained through the belief that one’s own culture is 
enduring. Helping a outgroup culture is not reinforcing someones own culture. 

Does  Mortality salience increased optimism in the context of sport fans?

Yes ,people were more supportive of and had a stronger belief in “their team” when they were primed with the concept of death.

Implicit Association Test (IAT) Primer shows that there is a main effect in congruent en incongruent between two groups, which groups? and explain  congruent en incongruent

between Muslim and Non-Muslim (europeans), congruent refers to a test were the participants got the condition were European names where the same buttom as 'good' word, and Arabic names were the same buttom as 'bad' words. In the incongruent test the buttom European names was the same as 'bad' names and the buttom Arabic names was the same as ' good' names

Does mortality salience increase violence toward outgroups?

mortality salience increased support for martyrdom. It even increased people’s willingness to consider joining pro martyrdom groups.

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