Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14210/23:00131352
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2975" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2975</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2975" target="_blank" >10.1002/ejsp.2975</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Original language description
Research suggests that costly displays of commitment increase trust and cooperation. In five studies (total n > 1,700), we investigated whether costly behaviours are more effective in promoting trust when integrated within a religious rather than secular context using the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as a costly display of commitment. First, we show that pilgrims base their pilgrim identity on physical effort (Studies 1A and 1B). Next, in three pre-registered experiments (Studies 2–4) with the Spanish population, we compared the trustworthiness of people posting on Facebook about their participation in a religious pilgrimage and a secular pilgrimage/hike with various control posts. The results showed that pilgrims/hikers are perceived as more trustworthy than non-pilgrims and that long-distance pilgrims are perceived as more trustworthy than short-distance pilgrims. Moreover, these effects are stronger when the pilgrimage is framed in a religious context compared to a secular context. Our research highlights the key role of religion in the costly signalling of commitment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF19_074%2F0012727" target="_blank" >EF19_074/0012727: MSCAfellow3@MUNI</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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