Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest behavior.

ABSTRACT: Although scientists agree that replications are critical to the debate on the validity of religious priming research, religious priming replications are scarce. This paper attempts to replicate and extend previously observed effects of religious priming on ethical behavior. We test the effect of religious instrumental music on individuals' ethical behavior with university participants (N = 408) in the Czech Republic, Japan, and the US. Participants were randomly assigned to listen to one of three musical tracks (religious, secular, or white noise) or to no music (control) for the duration of a decision-making game. Participants were asked to indicate which side of a vertically-bisected computer screen contained more dots and, in every trial, indicating that the right side of the screen had

SUBMITTER: Nichols AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7425871 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature