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Going along with Brian Dillman’s previous announcement, this is the first episode from our new series “The Human Mormon Mind.” This is a series where we discuss topics related to psychology and self-deception science in general. Many of our topics will be inspired from the book “You Are Not So Smart” by David Mcraney. In today’s episode Benjamin Knoll, Brian Kissell, and Brian Dillman discuss the topic of priming as it is related to Mormonism. As you listen to us discuss some of the primes we see within Mormonism, I would encourage you to share any that we may not have brought up. Thank you for listening.
Brian Kissell
Brian Kissell has a deep love for Mormon podcasts, as they have been an extremely influential tool for him as he has traveled on this wonderful faith journey within the Mormon World. He believes in big tent Mormonism, and is interested in recognizing better ways to value and increase diversity, while simultaneously increasing our ability as a culture for differing individuals to talk to each other in more productive and healthy ways. Brian is also the host of a few other podcasts. One of these is a short faithful devotional podcast centered around Mormon quotes which can be found at Mormonquotes.wordpress.com. Another is a psychology podcast which can be found at Methodologyforpsychology.org.
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These papers describe interesting priming effects on compliance with authority figures, and also on cardiovascular reactivity.
Van Cappellen, P., Corneille, O., Cols, S., & Saroglou, V. (2011). Beyond mere compliance to authoritative figures: Religious priming increases conformity to informational influence among submissive people. The international journal for the psychology of religion, 21(2), 97-105.
Carlisle, M., Uchino, B. N., Sanbonmatsu, D. M., Smith, T. W., Cribbet, M. R., Birmingham, W., . . . Vaughn, A. A. (2012). Subliminal activation of social ties moderates cardiovascular reactivity during acute stress. Health Psychology, 31(2), 217.
Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. This is the kind of knowledge that makes a difference. Keep it up!
Great podcast. I really appreciated the discussion around the how the LDS bloggernacle tends to get caught up in popular angst, particularly the popular angst of the most favored “pain” issues of academic types. It strikes me that with global climate change and poverty as two of the massive looming issues for human civilization, the blogosphere was almost silent when the ‘Environmental Stewardship and Conservation’ and ‘Welfare’ Gospel Topics pieces were released. Those are topics that have substantial relevance for a large majority of people on the planet.
In contrast, there has been non-stop buzz about polygamy, feminism, LGBT issues, modesty, and the rest of the sexy stuff that that affects a small minority inside of the Mormon community. I suppose that media priming has something to do with that but we should aspire to be better, I think.
Thank you Greg!
Mike Maxwell,
I totally agree.
I’m about to listen to the podcast but I just had to point out the irony in the comments that straight men think women’s issues and homosexuality are somehow “sexy issues” that are unimportant next to the REAL stuff which just so happens to be whatever you think it is. It must be convenient to not have to question your worth in the eyes of God every week or worry about the young gay members on the edge of suicide (and there have been several confirmed suicides after this last conference…man how selfish of us to focus on that!)
The reason these issues are prevalent is because they do in fact hurt people and not just intellectuals. The fact that they aren’t important to you just means you don’t have to deal with them. Congrats on being a white heterosexual male in a church designed for you. If you don’t care about the things affecting others that’s fine, but please don’t insult the rest of us hanging on by implying our focus is less legitimate than yours.