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> In the experimental condition, the researchers prompted thoughts of God using a well-established "priming" technique: participants, who again included both th
by icky 19y ago
> In the experimental condition, the researchers prompted thoughts of God using a well-established "priming" technique: participants, who again included both theists and atheists, first had to unscramble sentences containing words such as God, divine and sacred.
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> In a second study, the researchers had participants unscramble sentences containing words like civic, contract and police -- meant to evoke secular moral institutions.
Conclusion: sentence-unscrambling induces generosity.