The Religious Observance of Ramadan and Prosocial Behavior

Haruvy, Ernan; Ioannou, Christos A.; Golshirazi, Farnoush

doi:10.1111/ecin.12480

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“…Ramadan is a moment to sharpen social sensitivity. People tends to be more generous in this holy month (Haruvy et al, 2018). Ramadan is not only focused on the ubudiyah aspect, but also on a lot of worship that shows the nuances of concern for people who experience economic difficulties as a result of this pandemic (Muslim, 2020).…”

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How Ramadan and Global Pandemic Affect Religiosity and Donating Behaviors

Fahrullah

Anwar

Ridlwan

et al. 2020

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Ramadan in the year of 2020 is the witness of global pandemic caused by the spread of Covid-19 that significantly alters human behaviors. In response to the current phenomenon, the present study is conducted to scrutinize how the holy month of Ramadan and global pandemic affect human religiosity and donating behaviors. To this end, this study employed a web-based questionnaire to gather the required data from 128 Indonesians who were voluntarily participated upon invitation. Using WarpPLS to analyze the data, the results showed that there was a significant influence of global pandemic situation and Ramadan on the level of religiosity. Moreover, the pandemic situation also encouraged the exist growth of donation institutions. This study further revealed the positive impact of the holy month of Ramadan and religiosity on human donating behaviors. In other words, Ramadan and global pandemic increased the level of human religiosity and the existence of donation institutions, as a results, their donating behaviors were also improved. However, this study found that the existence of donation institutions did not have any influence on human donating behaviors. These results offer an implication that Ramadan and global pandemic obviously provide a direct impact on religiosity and human donating behaviors.

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How Ramadan and Global Pandemic Affect Religiosity and Donating Behaviors

Fahrullah

Anwar

Ridlwan

et al. 2020

Shirkah

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“…An interesting recent experimental study conducted in a Muslim country by Haruvy, Ioannou, and Golshirazi () shows that observant workers who are in the midst of fasting during Ramadan are far more generous to recipients than workers who have had their evening meal, but it is reversed when decision‐makers are outside Ramadan.…”

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Effect of religious priming in prosocial and destructive behaviour

Zhang

Brown

Xie

2019

Pacific Economic Review

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In this paper, we study the behavioural impact of religious priming by showing participants religious words in a scrambled sentence task before a dictator game and a joy‐of‐destruction game. We also elicited data on individual religiosity and religious affiliation using a questionnaire. Priming religious words significantly increased prosocial behaviour in the dictator game, and the effect was especially striking among those reporting no religion, atheists and agnostics. The religious prime has no significant effect in mitigating destructive behaviour or own expectations of the other's destruction choice, but both destructive behaviour and expectations correlate positively with the multi‐dimensional religiosity measure.

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“…Moreover, Ramadan fasting and the religious experience are arguably more intense when the daily Ramadan fasting is longer. Consistent with these notions, Haruvy et al (2018) find that alimentary abstention has positive effects on pro-social behavior during Ramadan, but not when it is unrelated to religion. Furthermore, Campante and Yanagizawa-Drott (2015) find that longer Ramadan daylight hours increase happiness despite leading to a decrease in GDP per capita.…”

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confidence: 52%