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Reactions to prayer at governmental meetings
Timothy K Daugherty1, Aimee M West, Melissa C Williams
1Psychology Department, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA. daughertyt@winthrop.edu
Psychological Reports
|October 9, 2009
Summary
College women
Area of Science:
- Social Psychology
- Political Science
- Sociology of Religion
Background:
- Public officials' religious expressions, such as prayer, can influence public perception.
- Community reactions to religious displays by officials may mediate voter attitudes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how the manipulated religion of an official offering prayer and community reaction affect college women's support and voting intentions.
- To examine the role of participants' personal importance of religion as a covariate.
Main Methods:
- Experimental manipulation of government official's religion during prayer.
- Measurement of community reaction to the prayer scenario.
- Assessment of participants' support and intent to vote for the official.
- Inclusion of participants' importance of religion as a covariate.
Main Results:
- An interaction was found between support/intent to vote and the manipulated religion/community reaction.
- The importance of religion to participants significantly explained variance in their responses.
Conclusions:
- Both the official's religious identity in prayer and the community's response interact to shape voter attitudes.
- Personal religious salience is a key factor influencing individual political-religious perceptions.
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