Numerous authors have suggested that religious belief has a positive association, possibly
causal, with prosocial behavior. This article critiques evidence regarding this “religious …

Social desirability bias can change the results from marketing experiments and surveys.
However, there are few illustrations that show how serious social desirability bias can be …

Highlights•Religiosity is associated with deontic, rather than utilitarian, meta-ethics.•Religion
causes people to view morality as a set of objective truths.•Religiosity predicts higher self …

Explanations of error in survey self-reports have focused on social desirability: that
respondents answer questions about normative behavior to appear prosocial to …

From marriage equality, to gun control, to immigration reform and the threat of war, religion
plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at …

Like that of other normative behaviors, much of the research on physical exercise is based
on self-reports that are prone to overreporting. While research has focused on identifying the …

American society is rapidly secularizing–a radical departure from its historically high level of
religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious …

Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often
for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and 'spiritual'ideas, practices and …

Scholars have consistently shown that social identities can shape political attitudes and
behaviors; this article explores the reverse relationship. Are partisan identities ever strong …

Research on pro-environmental behavior (PEB) informs social policies and interventions, so
the quality of PEB measurement is critical. Self-reported PEB measures in surveys often …