Awe inspiring help: Awe as a sacred trigger for prosocial
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Awe inspiring help: Awe as a sacred trigger for prosocial behaviour

KUNDT, Radek

Základní údaje

Originální název

Awe inspiring help: Awe as a sacred trigger for prosocial behaviour

Autoři

KUNDT, Radek

Vydání

IACSR 2016 International Assotiation for the Cognitive Science of Religion 6th biennieal meeting Vancouver, 2016

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Stát vydavatele

Kanada

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 13. 11. 2016 12:27, Mgr. et Mgr. Radek Kundt, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Both in the past and in the present, religious systems have given rise to awe-inspiring structures. It has been posited that these structures facilitated social cooperation on large scales, possibly by reminding believers about the existence of forces even more vast than the structure itself. In a recent study series, Piff and colleagues (JPSP 2015 Vol. 108) used a priming experimental paradigm in demonstrating that awe can produce a sense of relative smallness and subsequent prosociality in all people rather than only believers. More specifically, participants shown a video of an awe-inspiring tornado rather than videos eliciting neutral emotions or amusement reported a greater sense of smallness. The sense of smallness, in turn, was found to act as a mediator for level of cooperation displayed in a survey-based measure. We report the results of follow-up priming study with a novel behavioural measure of prosociality and a carefully selected awe-inspiring video that did not explicitly show a vast force. Moreover, our study included pre-experimental measures of religiosity, spirituality and relevant personality constructs. We found that helpfulness levels in a voluntary tedious task were higher in the awe condition relative to the other two, albeit only for people reporting some religious or spiritual belief alongside high levels of the “openness to experience” personality trait. Our results are consistent with the proposal that awe comes to be associated with moral standards via cultural socialisation and ritual participation contingent on some level of religious or spiritual belief.

Návaznosti

EE2.3.20.0048, projekt VaV

Název: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

KUNDT, Radek. Awe inspiring help: Awe as a sacred trigger for prosocial behaviour. In IACSR 2016 International Assotiation for the Cognitive Science of Religion 6th biennieal meeting Vancouver. 2016.

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KUNDT, Radek. Awe inspiring help: Awe as a sacred trigger for prosocial behaviour. In \textit{IACSR 2016 International Assotiation for the Cognitive Science of Religion 6th biennieal meeting Vancouver}. 2016.

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