Mixed Reactions

Abstract

This paper hypothesizes that religious motivation can explain the varied response to the political use of religious rhetoric. Religious motivation is an important individual difference, and variation in religious motivation can explain why some religious citizens are attracted to candidates using religious appeals while others are clearly not. Using a survey-experiment, this paper tests the effect of religious language and attempts to isolate differences among the religious in how they respond to religious rhetoric. The goal of this paper then becomes twofold.First, it introduces a measure of religious motivation and demonstrates that it is a unique measure of individual difference with independent effects beyond traditional measures of religiosity, personality, and conservatism. The second goal is to demonstrate that religious motivation can explain the variance in reactions to religious rhetoric within a campaign environment. Religious individuals respond differently to religious appeals, with some evaluating candidates much higher when religious words were used while others rated the candidate lower. Religious motivation is shown to be a much better predictor of response to religious rhetoric than

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