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Liana S E Hone1, Thomas G McCauley1, Eric J Pedersen1, Evan C Carter1, Michael E McCullough1.
Abstract
Recent theorizing suggests that religious people's moral convictions are quite strategic (albeit unconsciously so), designed to make their worlds more amenable to their favored approaches to solving life's basic challenges. In a meta-analysis of 5 experiments and a preregistered replication, we find that religious identity places a sex premium on moral judgments, causing people to judge violations of conventional sexual morality as particularly objectionable. The sex premium is especially strong among highly religious people, and applies to both legal and illegal acts. Religion's influence on moral reasoning emphasizes conventional sexual norms, and may reflect the strategic projects to which religion has been applied throughout history. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32463272 PMCID: PMC7704543 DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000296
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol ISSN: 0022-3514