East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1515-1533

  Clobert, Magali ^a,b   Saroglou, Vassilis ^a   Hwang, Kwang Kuo ^c   Soong, Wen Li ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

East Asian religions; Implicit Association Test; prejudice; prosociality; religiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910080194     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022114546641     Document Type: Article

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