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Beyond mere compliance to authoritative figures: Religious priming increases conformity to informational influence among submissive people

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Van Cappellen, Patty [UCL] Corneille, Olivier [UCL] Cols, Stephanie [UCL] Saroglou, Vassilis [UCL]

Religious priming activates submissive thoughts and facilitates compliance to authority's request for revenge among individuals with high dispositional submissiveness (Saroglou, Corneille, & Van Cappellen, 2009). The present experiment examines another key social influence issue: the effect of religious priming on informational conformity. Participants primed with subtle religious or control cues were asked to complete a numeric estimation task. In this task, they were left free to use or disregard numeric estimates allegedly provided by peers for reporting their own numeric decision. Results revealed that participants assimilated their estimates to that of their peers more after religious than control priming, at least for participants scoring higher on dispositional submissiveness. This finding adds to current research concerned with the impact of religious priming in social cognition and behavior.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2011
Language Anglais
Journal information "International Journal for the Psychology of Religion" - Vol. 21, no. 2, p. 97-105 (2011)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Routledge ((United States) Philadelphia)
issn 1050-8619
e-issn 1532-7582
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
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Bibliographic reference Van Cappellen, Patty ; Corneille, Olivier ; Cols, Stephanie ; Saroglou, Vassilis. Beyond mere compliance to authoritative figures: Religious priming increases conformity to informational influence among submissive people. In: International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Vol. 21, no. 2, p. 97-105 (2011)
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