Buddhist Concepts as Implicitly Reducing Prejudice and Increasing Prosociality
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Buddhist concepts as implicitly reducing prejudice and increasing prosociality.
Does Buddhism really promote tolerance? Based on cross-cultural and cross-religious evidence, we hypothesized that Buddhist concepts, possibly differing from Christian concepts, activate not only prosociality but also tolerance. Subliminally priming Buddhist concepts, compared with neutral or Christian concepts, decreased explicit prejudice against ethnic, ideological, and moral outgroups among...
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عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0146-1672,1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167215571094