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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宗教启蒙对亲社会和破坏性行为的影响

在本文中，我们通过在独裁者游戏和破坏性游戏之前向参与者显示在加扰句子任务中使用宗教单词来研究宗教引发的行为影响。我们还使用问卷调查得出有关个人宗教信仰和宗教信仰的数据。在宗教独裁者的游戏中，以宗教语言发声会大大增加亲社会的行为，在没有宗教，无神论者和不可知论者的报道中，这种影响尤为明显。宗教素主在减轻破坏性行为或自己对他人的破坏选择的期望方面没有显著作用，但破坏性行为和期望都与多维宗教信仰测度呈正相关。