Religious IAT and motivational and cognitive variables

The present study seeks to explore the empirical relationship between implicit religious cognitions and other measures of both motivational and cognitive variables. First, we developed a religious-concepts implicit association test (IAT), and will evaluate its internal psychometric properties and its ability to detect an implicit association. Second, we will examine the possible differences, between Christians and atheists, on 22 measures, as follows: 1. Religious IAT 2. Intuitive appeal of culturally-general religious concepts (e.g., a higher power). 3. Expressed belief in culturally-general religious concepts. 4. Death-thought accessibility (DTA) 5. Death anxiety—composite 6. Death anxiety—self death 7. Death anxiety—self dying 8. Death anxiety—other death 9. Death anxiety—other dying 10. Presence of meaning in life 11. Search for meaning in life 12. Loneliness 13. Cognitive reflection test (CRT) 14. Rational-Experiential inventory (REI, composite) 15. Faith in intuition (REI Intuitive subscale) 16. Need for cognition (REI Analytic subscale) 17. Promiscuous teleological reasoning (Kelemen) 18. True teleology (Kelemen) 19. False teleology (Kelemen) 20. True cause (Kelemen) 21. False cause (Kelemen) 22. Demographic: Age 23. Demographic: Sex 24. Demographic: Race 25. Demographic: Ethnicity 26. Demographic: Education level 27. Demographic: Political orientation Third, we will examine the relationships between that religious IAT and the 21 other measures of relevant motivational and cognitive variables and the 6 demographic variables. Fourth, we will examine the possibility that those targeted relationships (between religious IAT and the motivational and cognitive variables) also differed between Christians and atheists.