TY - JOUR
T1 - Religion From the Target’s Perspective
T2 - A Portrait of Religious Threat and Its Consequences in the United States
AU - Pasek, Michael H.
AU - Cook, Jonathan E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This material is based in part upon work supported by a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship awarded to Michael H. Pasek under Grant No. DGE1255832 and by a student research award awarded to Michael H. Pasek by APA Division 36 (Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality).
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PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Little is known about social identity threat from religion or religiosity. We collected data from a diverse sample of Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims across the United States (N = 970) to test whether, and for whom, religion and religiosity, like other social identities, can be consequential sources of identity threat. Results suggest that religious threat is highest among religious minority groups (Muslims and Jews) and highly religious Protestants. Threat predicted (1) lower belonging, (2) a greater propensity to conceal one’s religion, and (3) more intergroup bias, although these patterns varied somewhat by religion. Results illuminate how a broader social climate in which religion and specific religious groups are often the subject of heated rhetoric may trigger identity threat and exacerbate intergroup hostilities.
AB - Little is known about social identity threat from religion or religiosity. We collected data from a diverse sample of Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims across the United States (N = 970) to test whether, and for whom, religion and religiosity, like other social identities, can be consequential sources of identity threat. Results suggest that religious threat is highest among religious minority groups (Muslims and Jews) and highly religious Protestants. Threat predicted (1) lower belonging, (2) a greater propensity to conceal one’s religion, and (3) more intergroup bias, although these patterns varied somewhat by religion. Results illuminate how a broader social climate in which religion and specific religious groups are often the subject of heated rhetoric may trigger identity threat and exacerbate intergroup hostilities.
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550617739089
DO - 10.1177/1948550617739089
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041287937
VL - 10
SP - 82
EP - 93
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 1
ER -