Religious priming as a research tool for studying religion: evidentiary value, current issues, and future directions

Religious priming allows researchers to explore the causal impacts of religious concepts on a wide variety of psychological outcomes. We review recent meta-analytic findings, and discuss the impact of methodological variation and convergent effects. We conclude that current evidence supports religious priming as having evidentiary and utilitarian value, but more assessment of moderators and the robustness of these effects across methods and contexts is needed.