Religious IAT and personality and individual difference variables

The present study seeks to explore the empirical relationship between implicit religious cognitions and other personality and individual difference 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 26 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. Big5—openness 5. Big5—conscientiousness 6. Big5—extroversion 7. Big5—agreeableness 8. Big5—neuroticism 9. Personal need for structure (PNS) 10. Experiences in close relationships (ECR; anxiety) 11. Experiences in close relationships (ECR; avoidance) 12. Self-esteem 13. Social desirability 14. Need-satisfaction – composite 15. Need-satisfaction – autonomy 16. Need-satisfaction – competence 17. Need-satisfaction – relatedness 18. Goal orientation 19. Self-construal – independent 20. Self-construal – interdependent 21. Demographic: Age 22. Demographic: Sex 23. Demographic: Race 24. Demographic: Ethnicity 25. Demographic: Education level 26. Demographic: Political orientation Third, we will examine the relationships between that religious IAT and the other personality and individual difference variables and the 6 demographic variables. Fourth, we will examine the possibility that those targeted relationships (between religious IAT and the personality and individual difference variables) also differed between Christians and atheists.