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Personality Psychology

Personality, Culture, and Religion

Review Various Threats  Defensive Extremes (PxE) Same Threats  Approach Motivation (PxE) Behavioral Neuroscience (right line bisection) Neuroscience (Left EEG; rEEG*ACC) (PxE) Same Threats  Religious Zeal (PxE) Self-Affirmations Eliminate Distress and Extremism Healthy-Minded Religious Devotion Eastern and Western

Overview

Fascist Consensus (at low implicit)

(McGregor, Nail, Marigold, & Kang, 2005, JPSP )

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80

Low Explicit High Explicit

Consensus Estimate (%)

Stats Threat Control

Line Bisection Task: Behavioral Neuroscience Measure

of Relative Cerebral Hemisphericity

Please quickly look at each of the lines below and then make a short tick-mark on each line that divides it in half

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• r Left EEG (F7F8). Line-Bisection Task =.

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Low High Eager Personality (explicit SE)

Approach EEG

Control

Academic Threat

Academic Goal Frustration  Religious Zeal

Which religious belief system do you most identify with?

Jewish (20%) Christian (45%) Muslim (5%) Buddhist (10%) Atheist (20%)

1. Confident
2. Aspire to live and act according to
3. Grounded in objective truth
4. Most people would agree if understood
5. If publicly criticized would argue to defend it
6. Would support a war to defend
7. Would sacrifice my life to defend
8. Believe in my heart more correct than others’

Religious Zeal (scale from 1-5)

Approach Personality x Academic Threat

Low High Explicit Self-Esteem, BAS, Promotion- Focus

Religious Zeal

Control Threat

Religious Zeal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Religious Zeal is also negatively correlated with ACC

r = -.63 Docsity.com

Defensive Pride and Idealism

XXP

Authoritarian Ideology

Insecure Attachment and Narcissism

Reactive Zeal Religious rapture is a unifying state…“sand and grit of selfhood disappear” Excessively intense thoughts repress conflict…“mental dams”

• Religious zeal is used as a displacement ‘goal’
• Caused by important goal frustrations
• Activates clear approach-motivation processes
• Relieves sensitivity to uncertainty and anxiety
• Liberates vigorous (myopic) action

“Self-Affirmation” Manipulations that Decrease Reactive Ideological Extremes

• Love
• Self-Worth
• Values Affirmation
• Group-Identification and Consensus
• Same domains as defensive zeal (and stages)
• Like zeal, self-affirmations relieve distress
• Self-affirmations only work in the West
  • Among Eager, Idealistic People (see next)