… punishing views of God predicted lower levels of cheating (β = −.58, p = .004).Footnote 4
No other variables were significant. One would expect that believing in a punitive God matters …

… As predicted, this cheating occurred less frequently among … that Jesus still helps people,”“I
believe that God listens to prayers,… Beliefs in gods, afterlives, and other supernatural concepts …

… god-beliefs at encouraging moral behavior in their believers, we predict that the belief in a
forgiving and compassionate God … God actually cheated more (Shariff & Norenzayan, 2011). A …

… to predicting higher self-reported prosocial behavior … behavioral tasks, Shariff and Norenzayan
(2011) found that self-reported belief in God was unrelated to students’ cheating behavior …

… predicted a main effect of priming, but made no specific … , and refraining from lying and
cheating. Theoretically, these … gods appear to have limited concern about how people treat each …

… (2011). Mean gods make good people: Different views of God predict cheating behavior.
The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 21(2), 85–96. doi: 10.1080/…

… to how well people meet the particular, often local, behavioral … and sanctioning (Chudek &
Henrich 2011; Chudek et al. 2013). … sions such as cheating, whereas greater belief that God is …

… conceptions of God cheated less on an academic task [31]. … We manipulated whether the
God beliefs measure came … We predicted that beliefs in a powerful, intervening God, when …

… believed in a forgiving God were more likely to cheat (Shariff & Norenzayan, 2011). Recently,
it … gods make good people: Different views of God predict cheating behavior. International …

… In this perspective, the existence of punishment by an omniscient and … in God’s forgiving
aspects show significantly more cheating behavior in the task (Shariff and Norenzayan 2011). In …