Perceiving Self, Others, and Events Through a Religious Lens: Mahayana Buddhists vs. Christians

Do Unto Others 1 Running Head: Do Unto Others " Do Unto Others " : Effects of Priming the Golden Rule on Buddhists " and Christians " Anti-gay Attitudes

Research suggests that religious individuals are more prejudiced against sexual minorities (Herek, 1987). However, the Golden Rule, a universal concept embedded in many religions, emphasizes the importance of treating others with compassion. The present study examined how priming the Golden Rule influenced Buddhists‟ and Christians‟ attitudes toward gay people. We primed participants with Golde...

Cultural Differences in Perceiving Sounds Generated by Others: Self Matters

Sensory consequences resulting from own movements receive different neural processing compared to externally generated sensory consequences (e.g., by a computer), leading to sensory attenuation, i.e., a reduction in perceived intensity or brain evoked responses. However, discrepant findings exist from different cultural regions about whether sensory attenuation is also present for sensory conse...

PERCEIVING EVENTS 1 Running head: PERCEIVING STRUCTURE IN EVENTS Perceiving, Remembering and Communicating Structure in Events

How do people perceive routine events such as making a bed as they unfold in time? Research on knowledge structures suggests that people conceive of events as goal-directed partonomic hierarchies. Here, participants segmented videos of events into coarse and fine units on separate viewings; some described the activity of each unit as well. Both segmentation and descriptions support the hierarch...

Religion and Religious Tolerance 1 Running Head: RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE When How You Believe Matters More than What You Believe: Religiosity and Religious Intolerance among Christians and Buddhists

In three samples containing Buddhist and Christian participants from several nations, participants of both religions manifested a generally similar relationship between religiosity and intolerance. In all three samples, devotional religiosity (e.g. prayer frequency, faith devotion), was strongly correlated with coalitional religiosity (e.g. organized religious attendance, fundamentalism). Yet d...

Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia