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A case for the reproductive religiosity model: Examining the relation between religious belief and attendance and reactions to sexual and cooperation based moral transgressions.

Recent studies indicated reproductive moral views tend to be stronger predictors of religious belief and attendance than cooperation related moral beliefs. These findings question religious morality as primarily large-scale cooperation adaptation and propose religious communities and rituals are used mainly by individuals pursuing a more committed mating strategy to deter others from seeking a promiscuous sexual strategy. In our study, we aimed to examine these conflicting theories and test the extent to which religious belief and ritual attendance moderated our perceptions of, and reactions to, both sexual and cooperation based moral transgressions. Using an online survey we applied vignettes depicting sexual moral transgressions (cheating & promiscuity), and vignettes containing cooperation centered moral transgressions (disloyalty & betrayal) on a sample of 305 participants (M=94, F=2011). The results indicated that non-believers tend to perceive sexual transgressions as both less morally unacceptable and more forgivable. However, religious attendance and frequency of prayer were positively related to forgiveness of cooperation centered moral transgression. These findings indicate how it is possible that both hypotheses could simultaneously be plausible. Seeking religious affiliation will surround individuals with people who have more negative views on sexual transgressions while religious attendance seems to indicate a tendency toward more redemptive attitudes in cooperative moral transgressions, which could prove to be more beneficial for cooperative behavior in the long term.

eligion, reproduction, cooperation, morality, moral transgression

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