U.S. Citizens’ Representations of God and Support for Sustainability Policies

Johnson, Kathryn A.; Liu, Richie L.; Minton, Elizabeth A.; Bartholomew, Darrell E.; Peterson, Mark F.; Cohen, Adam B.; Kees, Jeremy

doi:10.1509/jppm.16.108

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“…Notably, however, the reverse may also be true: Self-transcendent feelings elicited by awe experiences may lead to greater feelings of connectedness. Consistent with this reasoning, prior research has shown that awe experiences (e.g., seeing the earth from space) promote feelings of connectedness via self-transcendence [18, 19]; that is, awe experiences bring about feelings of awe and other self-transcendent emotions, which in turn promote greater feelings of connectedness.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Finally, experiential methodologies provide participants with specific experiences that would evoke awe, such as viewing an expansive T-Rex skeleton [13], viewing the surrounding area from the top of a bell tower [6], or visiting a grove of tall trees [2]. Across induction procedures, images of the universe, planet Earth, stars, or outer space are quite common: 51% of 35 experiments relied on such images to induce feelings of awe [2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19].…”

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The proximal experience of awe

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Research on awe has grown exponentially in recent decades; however, few studies have considered whether awe-inspiring experiences also inspire other emotions. In two studies, we explored whether interventions targeting awe also evoke other discrete emotions. Additionally, we considered two constructs that may be associated with increases in each emotion—self-relevant thoughts and connectedness. In Study 1, we manipulated awe in virtual reality and examined the potential effects of a prototypical awe experience—a spacewalk accompanied by an audio clip of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot . In Study 2, we manipulated awe with a video depicting scenes of Earth from outer space paired with the same audio clip. Across both studies, a prototypical awe experience was associated not only with awe, but with compassion, gratitude, love, and optimism, along with connectedness and self-relevant thoughts. Furthermore, we found that increases in self-relevant thoughts and connectedness in response to the awe induction predicted increases in each emotion evoked and vice-versa. These findings suggest that experiences that are commonly considered awe-inspiring—such as viewing a picturesque landscape—may be more appropriately conceptualized more broadly as self-transcendent. More work is needed to determine whether the documented benefits of awe may be more appropriately interpreted as the benefits of self-transcendent emotions.

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“…We predict that authoritarian God concept, which tends to correlate positively with conservatism (K. A. Johnson et al, 2017;Thomson & Froese, 2016), would be positively correlated with the binding foundations and that an authoritarian God prime would likewise increase endorsement of the binding foundations. In contrast, we predict that benevolent God concept would be positively correlated with the individualizing foundations and a benevolent God prime would increase endorsement of individualizing foundations.…”

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The relationship between individual differences in religion, religious primes, and the moral foundations

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2020

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We present evidence for a complex relationship between religiousness and Haidt’s moral foundations, with data from four experiments, measuring 21 different dimensions of personal religiousness and utilizing six different religious primes. The more conservative dimensions of religiousness, such as intrinsic religious orientation and religious attendance, were positively related to binding moral foundations of loyalty, authority, and purity and sometimes related to the individualizing foundation of care. However, other, less conservative dimensions of religiousness, such as quest and extrinsic religious orientations, were unrelated or negatively related to binding foundations. Benevolent God concept was the only religious measure that was positively related to all five moral foundations. We did not find reliable effects of religious primes on endorsement of moral foundations. Results suggest a consistent but complicated relationship between religiousness and moral foundations at a dispositional level.

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“…Second, religion serves as a primary value system for well over half of consumers worldwide (Pew Research Forum, 2017), and provides a viable market segmentation characteristic given similarities in values among religious individuals (Schmidt et al, 2014). Finally, religion has numerous influences on consumption behavior (Agarwala et al, 2019; Mathras et al, 2016) and is more easily targetable in marketing campaigns using social media advertising selection characteristics (Johnson et al, 2017).…”

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“…An understanding in this area is critical because religion has been argued to influence many consumption decisions (Mathras, Cohen, Mandel, & Mick, 2016). Additionally, religious references can be incorporated into marketing communications, personal sales presentations, and segmentation/target market strategies to improve customer relationships and profits (Agarwala, Mishra, & Singh, 2019; Johnson et al, 2017). With over 80% of consumers worldwide following some sort of religious belief (Hackett & McClendon, 2017), it seems imperative to comprehensively understand how these beliefs and their influence on belongingness drive consumption behavior.…”

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Religiosity and consumer belonging: Influences on product evaluations

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2020

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Consumers have a fundamental need to belong. Prior research has examined the compensatory mechanisms that consumers use to restore belongingness when they have a low sense of belonging. However, research has yet to adequately understand the influence that having a high sense of belonging has on consumption behavior. Thus, three studies are conducted to address this gap in the literature, specifically examining religiosity as a source of consumers' high sense of belonging. Study 1A identifies that religiosity positively influences consumers' sense of belonging and corresponding product evaluations because belongingness creates a positive affect state. This affect then incidentally transfers a positive halo effect to product evaluations. Study 1B replicates the sequential mediation from Study 1A but only for those products that are value expressive. Studies 2 and 3 then better isolate these effects by priming religion (Study 2) as well as general social acceptance and rejection (Study 3). Findings reveal that only religion and acceptance primes influence consumers' sense of belonging and product evaluations. Discussion builds on need‐to‐belong theory and implications for marketing practice are discussed.

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U.S. Citizens’ Representations of God and Support for Sustainability Policies

Cited by 47 publications

References 68 publications

The proximal experience of awe

The proximal experience of awe

The relationship between individual differences in religion, religious primes, and the moral foundations

Religiosity and consumer belonging: Influences on product evaluations

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