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After God's Image, Prayer Leads People with Positive God Beliefs to Read Less Hostility in Others’ Eyes After God's Image, Prayer Leads People with Positive God Beliefs to Read Less Hostility in Others’ Eyes doi:10.17026/DANS-XS6-AXXHArticle ID: RRBB 1236033easy-dataset:67942 G.M. Meijer-van Abbema 2016-10-01 DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities 2017-01-30 Social Sciencespsychology; religion; mindreading; prayer; God image; mood change; prosocial; perception Two experiments examined whether priming God images through prayer leads people who believe in a benign God to view social targets in a more favorable light. In Experiment 1, Dutch Christians either prayed for or thought about a person, and then judged the emotions of others in the Reading-the-Mind-in-the-Eyes Test. The results showed that prayer led participants to read fewer hostile emotions in others’ eyes, whereas prayer had no effect on perceiving positive emotions or non-hostile negative emotions. Experiment 2 extended this finding by showing that prayer only reduced social perceptions of hostility among participants with a positive God image. Thus, beliefs in a benign God may enhance interpersonal trust among believers, but only when God beliefs are cognitively accessible. These findings suggest that positive God beliefs may help to promote prosocial attitudes and cooperation within religious communities.Article in English.The depositor provided the data files 'data experiment 1 After God´s Image' and 'data experiment 2 After God´s Image' in SAV format. DANS added the DTA and POR formats of these files to ensure preservation and accessibility. The depositor provided the file 'Trust 7-items' in DOC format. DANS added the PDF/A version of this file. https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai doi:10.17026/DANS-XS6-AXXH 2025-12-03T01:00:46Z ddi:codebook:2_5