Cleanliness and godliness: Mutual association between two kinds of personal purity
Cleanliness and godliness: Mutual association between two kinds of personal purity
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2012.05.015
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Ritter, Ryan S.
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作者：
Preston, Jesse Lee;Ritter, Ryan S.
纯洁仪式(如洗礼、弥撒和洗礼)是许多宗教习俗的重要组成部分。这些做法不仅有助于保护信徒免受物理污染，而且还赋予象征纯洁和维护神圣物品的神圣性。这项工作考察了宗教和清洁之间的联系，这是个人纯洁的两个代表。在词干补全任务中，宗教素数能够激活清洁概念(研究1)，并增加清洁产品的主观价值(研究2)。在最后一项研究中，清洁素材提高了宗教价值的评级。这些研究表明，虔诚和清洁之间存在相互关联，两者都可以激活对方，以此作为个人纯洁的目标。(C)2012 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
Purity rituals (such as baptism, mikvah, and ablution) are an important component of many religious practices. These practices not only help protect the faithful from physical contaminants, but also bestow symbolic purity and maintain the sanctity of sacred objects. The present work examines the association between religion and cleanliness, as two representations of personal purity. Religious primes were found to activate cleanliness concepts in a word-stem completion task (Study 1), and increased the subjective value of cleaning products (Study 2). In a final study, cleaning primes increased ratings of religious value. These studies suggest a mutual association between religiousness and cleanliness, and that each may activate the other as goals for personal purity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.