Effects of Religious Music on Dishonest Behavior
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Using a piece of instrumental religious music, we conducted two experiments across four different sites: Japan, Mauritius, the Czech Republic, and the USA. Participants were exposed to one of three kinds of auditory stimuli (religious, secular, or white noise), and were given a chance to cheat on the subsequent task to increase their monetary reward. A significant interaction between condition and religiosity across all sites, with religious participants being more influenced by religious stimuli than non-religious participants, suggests that religious music can function as a subtle moral cue, however, only for those who previously formed this moral association via cultural socialization and ritual participation. |
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