In an experimental study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Radim Chvaja, Martin Lang and colleagues show that religious *costly* signals are more effective in communicating trustworthiness to religious/secular receivers than secular signals.
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Previous research shows that costly religious signals increase trust and cooperation. However, the authors were the first to experimentally test the difference in these effects between religious and costly signals. To do so, they conducted a series of five studies using the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as a costly display of commitment. They discovered that pilgrims base their pilgrim identity on physical effort and that (long-distance) pilgrims/hikers are perceived as more trustworthy, especially so in a religious context.
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In a paper published in Religion, Brain & Behavior, J. Nenadalová & D. Řezníček demonstrated that some study participants in a sensory-deprived laboratory environment sensed the presence of another person. This feeling was mostly associated with perceived uncertainty and only somewhat associated with psychological dispositions.
In a cross-national investigation published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, F. M. Saxler with LEVYNA’s E. Kundtová Klocová and other colleagues show that the COVID-19 pandemic affected young people’s normative beliefs about unpaid domestic work; and that this effect is stronger in countries with greater gender inequality.
