The Role of Social Cognition in the Religious Fundamentalism-Prejudice Relationship

Hill, Eric; Cohen, Adam B.; Terrell, Heather K.; Nagoshi, Craig T.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2010.01542.x

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“…Individuals' belief systems are shaped by religious doctrine; since many religions condemn homosexuality or remain silent regarding homophobia people internalize these beliefs and in turn assume that gays and lesbians are immoral people (Hill et al 2010). Also, some evangelical churches support anti-gay and lesbian beliefs because they tend to promote the idea that homosexuality is a choice as opposed to a biological trait.…”

Section: Linking Christian Evangelicalism To Beliefs About Homosexualitymentioning

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My Friend is Gay, But… The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs about Gays and Lesbians

Baker

Brauner-Otto

2015

Review of Religious Research

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This paper examines the relationship between social contact with gays and lesbians and beliefs about homosexuality, and explicitly investigates whether this relationship is different for Christian evangelicals than for others. We find that although social contact with gays and lesbians is related to beliefs about homosexuality in ways predicted by social contact theory, those with a gay or lesbian friend hold more positive attitudes, this is not the case for Christian evangelicals. In fact, analyses reveal that the effect of social contact for Christian evangelicals is significantly less than the effect for non-evangelicals. Results suggest that social contact alone is not enough to positively change Christian evangelicals' beliefs about gay and lesbian individuals. This research adds to our knowledge about social contact by providing empirical evidence that all subgroups of the population are not affected equally by social contact with minority groups-an important piece of information for theoretical developments and policy makers.

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Section: Linking Christian Evangelicalism To Beliefs About Homosexualitymentioning

confidence: 98%

My Friend is Gay, But… The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs about Gays and Lesbians

Baker

Brauner-Otto

2015

Review of Religious Research

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“…Razavi and Jenichen (2010) argue that especially in the last 30 years religious fundamentalism has shaped political governance in a way that impacts women's rights. Given the link between both religious fundamentalism (Hill et al 2010) and right wing authoritarianism (Sibley et al 2007) with benevolent sexism, we expect that both religious and governance systems should predict variation in gender equality. Moreover, variation in human development, which comprises life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living (Klugman et al 2010), may also help to explain why countries differ with regard to gender equality, as the global gender gap report also notes the importance of development of human talent as a key factor in cross-cultural variations in gender equality (Hausmann et al 2009).…”

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The Gendering of Language: A Comparison of Gender Equality in Countries with Gendered, Natural Gender, and Genderless Languages

2011

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Feminists have long argued that sexist language can have real world consequences for gender relations and the relative status of men and women, and recent research suggests that grammatical gender can shape how people interpret the world around them along gender lines (Boroditsky 2009). Although others have theorized about the connection between grammatical gender in language and societal gender equality (Stahlberg et al. 2007), the current work tests this link empirically by examining differences in gender equality between countries with gendered, natural gender, and genderless language systems. Of the 111 countries investigated, our findings suggest that countries where gendered languages are spoken evidence less gender equality compared to countries with other grammatical gender systems. Furthermore, countries where natural gender languages are spoken demonstrate greater gender equality, which may be due to the ease of creating gender symmetric revisions to instances of sexist language.

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“…Con respecto a las relaciones entre el cierre cognitivo y la religión, se ha postulado que la necesidad de cierre podría estar relacionada con la religiosidad, especialmente con indicadores de fundamentalismo religioso, aunque esta relación está lejos de ser sencilla (Hill, Cohen, Terrell y Nagoshi, 2010). No obstante, hay que decir que el fundamentalismo religioso se ha relacionado con una gran variedad de constructos asociados a la necesidad de manejar la incertidumbre y de disponer de estructuras epistémicas sólidas.…”

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Cierre cognitivo, sexismo y religiosidad: diferencias y similitudes entre grupos de adolescentes con distinta cultura

2013

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Resumen: Desde el ámbito de la cognición social motivada, la necesidad de cierre cognitivo emerge como una variable crucial para la mejor comprensión de las diferencias individuales en variables psicosociales asociadas a la cultura y, además, susceptible de tener en cuenta en programas de intervención cuyo objetivo vaya dirigido a modificar actitudes ancladas en el prejuicio y la discriminación. En la presente investigación se ha realizado un estudio de este constructo motivacional y su relación con el sexismo y la religiosidad en una muestra de adolescentes cristianos y musulmanes, todos ellos residentes en un contexto social con un marcado carácter multicultural. De acuerdo con los datos obtenidos, no se han encontrado diferencias entre musulmanes y cristianos en necesidad de cierre cognitivo y sexismo. Sin embargo, se han encontrado diferencias por sexo en sexismo hostil. La necesidad de cierre cognitivo correlacionó de una forma estadísticamente significativa con el sexismo (hostil y benevolente), y es un buen predictor. Los musulmanes puntuaron de una forma significativamente más elevada que los cristianos en los indicadores de religiosidad. Se discuten los resultados en el marco de investigaciones previas. Palabras clave: Cierre cognitivo; sexismo; religiosidad; cultura.Title: Cognitive closure, sexism and religiosity: differences and similarities between teenagers with different culture. Abstract: In the context of motivated social cognition, the need for cognitive closure emerges like a decisive factor for a better understanding of individual differences on psychosocial variables linked to culture. Besides, they are likely to be taken into account in intervention programmes which objectives would aim to modify attitudes anchored in prejudice and discrimination. The goal of this research is to study this motivational construct and its relationship with sexism and religiosity with a sample of Christians and Muslims teenagers, all of them living in a multicultural context. According to the gathered data, there are not any significant differences between Muslims and Christians in need for cognitive closure and sexism. However, there are significant differences between girls and boys in hostile sexism. The need for cognitive closure was positively related, in a statistically significant way, with sexism (hostile and benevolent), and it is a significant predictor. Muslims got higher scores than Christians on indicators of religiosity in a statistically significant way. Results are discussed in relation to previous research. Key words: Cognitive closure; sexism; religiosity; culture. IntroducciónEl concepto de necesidad de cierre cognitivo (need for cognitive closure), fue propuesto por Arie W. Kruglanski (1989Kruglanski ( , 2004) para desarrollar un modelo científico sobre los aspectos cognitivo-conductuales de la toma de decisiones. Básicamente, la necesidad de cierre cognitivo puede ser definida como el deseo de dar una respuesta rápida a una pregunta o cuestión que tiene contenido confuso y ambiguo. Se asum...

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The Role of Social Cognition in the Religious Fundamentalism-Prejudice Relationship

Cited by 66 publications

References 64 publications

My Friend is Gay, But… The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs about Gays and Lesbians

My Friend is Gay, But… The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs about Gays and Lesbians

The Gendering of Language: A Comparison of Gender Equality in Countries with Gendered, Natural Gender, and Genderless Languages

Cierre cognitivo, sexismo y religiosidad: diferencias y similitudes entre grupos de adolescentes con distinta cultura

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