Cognitively Accessible Words Associated with God as Effective Lexical Primes

Michael B. Kitchens, Isabella M Lang, Sydney E Petrasic, Brian C Remper, Brittany Wilson
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Do the words used to prime the concept of God in psychology of religion research studies accurately reflect a mental representation of God? To examine this, two samples completed a free-association task, where they listed 10 words that came to mind when they thought about God (Studies 1a–1b). We found that more than half of the lexical primes used in previous studies were rarely or never produced (< 5 times) in the 2,610 free-association responses. Using a false memory paradigm, Study 2 revealed that the most frequent free-association words produced in Studies 1a and 1b more effectively primed the concept of God than a set of prime words used in previous religious priming studies that were not frequent free-association words in Studies 1a and 1b. This research advances the methodological practices in religious priming research and contributes to an understanding of people’s thoughts about God.
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与上帝相关的认知可及词作为有效的词素
宗教心理学研究中用来提出上帝概念的词语是否准确地反映了上帝的心理表征?为了检验这一点,两个样本完成了一项自由联想任务,列出了他们在思考上帝时想到的10个单词(研究1a–1b)。我们发现,在之前的研究中,超过一半的词汇素数在2610个自由联想反应中很少或从未产生(<5次)。使用错误记忆范式,研究2表明,研究1a和1b中产生的最频繁的自由联想词比之前的宗教启动研究中使用的一组主词更有效地启动了上帝的概念,而这些主词在研究1a和1b中不是频繁的自由联系词。这项研究推进了宗教启动研究的方法论实践,有助于理解人们对上帝的思想。
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