Isler, O, Yilmaz, O and Maule, AJ orcid.org/0000-0003-3083-5458 (2021) Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation. Nature Human Behaviour, 5. pp. 512-521. ISSN 2397-3374
Abstract
Religions promote cooperation, but they can also be divisive. Is religious cooperation intuitively parochial against atheists? Evidence supporting the social heuristics hypothesis (SHH) suggests that cooperation is intuitive, independent of religious group identity. We tested this prediction in a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game, where 1,280 practising Christian believers were paired with either a coreligionist or an atheist and where time limits were used to increase reliance on either intuitive or deliberated decisions. We explored another dual-process account of cooperation, the self-control account (SCA), which suggests that visceral reactions tend to be selfish and that cooperation requires deliberation. We found evidence for religious parochialism but no support for SHH’s prediction of intuitive cooperation. Consistent with SCA but requiring confirmation in future studies, exploratory analyses showed that religious parochialism involves decision conflict and concern for strong reciprocity and that deliberation promotes cooperation independent of religious group identity.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2021. This is an author produced version of an article, published in Nature Human Behaviour. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Economics; Human behaviour; Religion |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Decision Research (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2021 14:25 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2022 10:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Nature Research |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41562-020-01014-3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170665 |