Jeremy Ginges

@jeremyginges.bsky.social

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Social psychologist @LSE studying cooperation and conflict across cultural divides

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Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · Jul 17

During these terrible days of Israel’s genocide in Gaza , it’s easy to come to the false conclusion that conflict is inevitable and rests on deep differences such as attachment to different types of religious belief. The JPSP paper described by Mikey in this thread below is a nice antidote.

Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · Jul 17

Now out in JPSP! Behavioral economic experiments w/ Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews in the U.S., Israel and Fiji show that belief in God can facilitate cooperation, even across religious divides! More about our work (co-led with @jeremyginges.bsky.social) below! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Screenshot of title and abstract of paper, "In their God we trust: Religious Cognition increases cooperation across religious divides."

Abstract: Belief in moralizing Gods is widely thought to foster cooperation between coreligionists, but there is disagreement regarding whether this effect is limited to the religious ingroup or if it extends to members of religious outgroups. Here we report the results of a cross-cultural research program that demonstrates that people who think about God (a) are more trusted by both coreligionists and members of other religious groups and (b) typically behave in a more trustworthy manner toward both ingroups and outgroups. We ran three preregistered
studies (N= 1,784) with Christians and Muslims in the United States, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Christians and Hindus in Fiji. Our contexts varied in multiple ways, including the level of intergroup conflict.
Using two-player trust games involving real money, we varied whether participants interacted with ingroup or outgroup members and whether reciprocators considered God when deciding how much to return to trustors. We nd in each context that making moralizing God beliefs of one player salient enhances both intragroup and intergroup cooperation. Our ndings add to a nascent literature documenting the potential for religious cognition to extend moral norms across intergroup divides. We discuss implications for theories of the emergence of moralizing Gods and implications for public debates about religious pluralism in diverse societies.

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Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 21d

It is just horrifying to hear what is happening at The New School. A vibrant place with an extraordinary legacy is being gutted by mismanagement. Feel for all the faculty, staff and students.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Nov 6

You can't tackle antisemitism by quietly disinviting individuals - especially if these people have a mass following. The "rotten apple" approach never works - especially if you're not even willing to say it's rotten. You need to talk about it, explain, educate.

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