Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior

Batara, Jame Bryan L.

doi:10.5861/ijrsp.2015.1208

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“…For example, when primed with “God”, participants provided more monetary allocations in an anonymous economic game (Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007). University students who were primed with a watching God through listening to an English song and then translating it into one’s language offered more time for volunteer work compared to those who did not listen to and did not translate a religious song (Batara, 2016). Word primes related to religion also increased intention to help (Pichon, Boccato, & Saroglou, 2007), willingness to volunteer (Sasaki et al, 2013), and honesty (Randolph-Seng & Nielsen, 2007).…”

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Effects of religious priming concepts on prosocial behavior towards ingroup and outgroup

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Several studies show that there is a connection between religion and prosociality (e.g., Saroglou, 2013). To investigate whether there is a causal relationship between these two variables, a growing number of scholars employed priming religious concepts and measure its influence on prosocial behavior (e.g., Pichon, Boccato, & Saroglou, 2007). In the recent development of religious priming, Ritter and Preston (2013) argued that different primes (agent prime, spiritual/abstract prime, and institutional prime) may also have varying influence on prosocial behavior specifically helping an ingroup or an outgroup target. With this in mind, a 2 (social categorization of the target of help) by 3 (agent prime, institutional prime, spiritual prime) experiment was conducted to directly investigate this hypothesis. Results suggest that priming religious concepts especially the spiritual prime can increase prosocial behaviors. However, no significant effect was found on the social categorization which implies that Filipino participants elicit prosocial behavior regardless of the social categorization (be it ingroup or outgroup) of the target of help. The present study’s findings contribute to further the literature on religious priming and its influence on prosocial behavior.

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“…These experiments used the music priming paradigm of Batara (2016). The Christian music condition had participants listen to the Christian hymn “Rock of Ages.” The neutral song in the control condition was “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”…”

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“…With regard to the music primes (3a and 3b), one major limiting factor is that unlike Batara (2016), the experiments were conducted in an online setting. Due to this, there was no way to ensure participants would adequately listen to the songs.…”

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Analytic thinking, religiosity, and defensiveness against secularism: Absence of causality.

Villanueva¹,

Chen²,

Huang³

2024

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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This study examined the negative associations between religiosity and analytic thinking and defensiveness against secularism as a potential explanation. In 14 experimental studies, with n = 3,232 (n = 2,615 retained in the final analyses) American Protestant, Catholic, and nonreligious participants, we tested six causal hypotheses: analytic thinking decreases religiosity (H1), analytic thinking decreases defensiveness (H2), defensiveness increases religiosity (H3), religiosity decreases analytic thinking (H4), religiosity increases defensiveness (H5), and defensiveness decreases analytic thinking (H6). Results for each study and meta-analytic results supported none of the hypotheses, and equivalence tests suggested 1/6 of the effects were not essentially different from 0. In conclusion, there was no causal evidence that religiosity and analytic thinking conflicted with each other, and the effects were weak at best.

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“…The results of her research revealed that the folk song entitled Manuk Dadali can foster the spirit of nationalism. Batara (2016) argues that religious songs can be a medium for shaping prosocial behavior. Regarding song as a learning medium, Supartini et al (2020) study shows that the song-based learning method has a level of validity, practicality, and effica-cy above the benchmark for developing children's cognitive and psychomotor elements.…”

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Development of the Religious Character of the Nation through Learning Religious Songs: Teachers’ Perception and Challenges

2022

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Songs as learning media provide an aesthetic experience for students and can also teach character. Academics in many countries pay little attention to this issue because songs are mostly used to memorize foreign language vocabulary. This study investigates teachers’ perceptions of using songs to build students’ character. This study focuses on exploring teachers’ perceptions of the development of religious character as a core character in the curriculum in Indonesia through songs. The case study design was employed by involving 45 elementary school teachers spread over several districts in West Java province. This research was carried out in several stages; First, by preparing questionnaires distributed online; Second, by following up the answers to the questionnaire by conducting in-depth interviews; Third, by analyzing the data in an inductive-thematic manner in relation to learning problems, psychological and social issues arose. The research resulted in themes related to teachers’ perceptions of developing students’ religious character through religious songs. Four themes were explored in-depth related to teacher appreciation for songs, the benefits of religious songs, teacher challenges, and instructional design. It can be drawn that the song function was not only limited to developing a cognitive domain that functioned to remember and collect facts and data but could also be a means of developing students’ characters, especially religious characters. From the teacher’s perspective, religious songs were able to develop students’ religiosity dimension, including students’ beliefs, worship, appreciation, knowledge, and morals. Hence, this study contributes to the importance of developing songs related to religious themes to develop national character.

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Religious song as a facilitator of prosocial behavior

Cited by 8 publications

References 62 publications

Effects of religious priming concepts on prosocial behavior towards ingroup and outgroup

Effects of religious priming concepts on prosocial behavior towards ingroup and outgroup

Analytic thinking, religiosity, and defensiveness against secularism: Absence of causality.

Development of the Religious Character of the Nation through Learning Religious Songs: Teachers’ Perception and Challenges

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