Making Secular and Religious Attributions: The Availability Hypothesis Revisited

Lupfer, Michael B.; Paola, Stephanie; Brock, Karla F.; Clement, Lauriane

doi:10.2307/1386602

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“…This hypothesis resembles the attention theory of attribution, in that it suggests that the salience of thoughts of God should inXuence attributions of agency. Although the hypothesis has been evaluated in some studies, research has not revealed consistent eVects of availability-Wnding instead a general bias toward attributions to God for positive as opposed to negative events (Lupfer, De Paola, Brock, & Clement, 1994). We contend that attributions to God do not follow directly from mere attention or salience, but from more the complex processes of authorship processing.…”

Section: Self Versus Other Agentsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events

Dijksterhuis

Preston

Wegner

et al. 2008

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

102

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Three studies investigated how subliminally primed thoughts of an agent prior to action can affect ascriptions of authorship for that action. Participants competed against a computer program to remove words from a computer screen. Participants reported greater feelings of authorship when primed with first person singular pronouns, and lower feelings of authorship when primed with “computer.” We also investigated whether authorship feelings could be affected by priming subjects with a supernatural agent (i.e., God). Feelings of authorship decreased when participants were primed with God, but only among believers

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Section: Self Versus Other Agentsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events

Dijksterhuis

Preston

Wegner

et al. 2008

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

102

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“…There is currently a paucity of research in the psychology of religion related to the impact of cognitions regarding demons upon overall psychological health. Researchers know only that attributions to Satan as a causal agent for any event are very rare (Lupfer, Brock, & Depaola, 1992;Lupfer, Depaola, Brock, & Clement, 1994;Lupfer, Tolliver, & Jackson, 1996;Weeks & Lupfer, 2000). It is striking, then, that these attributions comprise the largest set of explanations for depression in our media sample.…”

Section: Demonic Influences In the Etiology Of Depressionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…This less favorable view of demons may be supported by research. On those infrequent occasions in which individuals do cite Satan as a causal agent in human events, the events described included human behaviors of which research participants disapproved (Lupfer et al, 1994). In rare instances, Satan was also blamed for negative outcomes of events (Lupfer et al, 1992).…”

Section: Demonic Influences In the Etiology Of Depressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representation of mental illness in Christian self-help bestsellers

Webb

Stetz

Hedden

2008

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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The present study examined messages about mental illness in 14 contemporary Christian self-help bestsellers. Content analysis revealed that most texts focused upon depression. Categories of textual units included Underlying Assumptions Regarding Depression, Representations of Depression, Roots/Causes/Reasons for Depression, and Christian Responses to Depression. Demonic influence was the most frequently cited reason for depression. Other reasons included negative cognitions, failure as a Christian, and negative emotions. Christian responses to depression included trusting God, religious activity, and individual willpower. Discussion of these results focused upon the problematic impact of these messages upon individuals with depression, and upon suggestions for reducing mental illness stigma in religious communities.

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“…Typological questionnaire: In this study I employed the vignette method (Rossi & Nock 1982), a technique used to investigate attitudes in social settings in an attempt to understand the complexity of the human situation investigated in its context and locate it in relation to the main research variables. The vignette method has been used in social behavioural research (Byers & Zeller 1995;Gowers et al 1996) and also to investigate certain religious aspects (Brodie & Fowler 1985;Lupfer et al 1994). …”

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Multiple Religious and Secular Definitions of Secular Adolescents in Israel

Gross

2012

J Empir Theol

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This study explores the validity of a novel theoretical model for assessing secularity and religiosity that proposes two dimensions -conceptual and inherited -in an efffort to further refĳine the religious/secular dichotomy applied in research to date. These new dimensions describe the manner in which people structure their world, religious or secular world as the case may be, and the signifĳicance they ascribe to it. The study, conducted among grade 12 students (N=100) in state (secular) schools in Israel, revealed that only fĳive of the eight types in the theoretical model are manifested empirically: three secular (conceptual, inherited and integrative) and two religious (conceptual and inherited). It posits that the concepts "religious" and "secular" are comprehensive and cannot fully describe the complexity of an individual's self-and public defĳinition in a modern, pluralistic world.

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Making Secular and Religious Attributions: The Availability Hypothesis Revisited

Cited by 45 publications

References 12 publications

Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events

Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events

Representation of mental illness in Christian self-help bestsellers

Multiple Religious and Secular Definitions of Secular Adolescents in Israel

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