Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

Is Religiosity Correlating with Self-Deception, Impression Management, and Gullibility?

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Perception

Session: Poster Session - Holding

Authors

Abstract

This study examined the correlations between gullibility, impression management, self-deception, and religiosity. As expected, we found that impression management was positively correlated with religiosity. We found no correlation between gullibility and religiosity. Contrary to prior research, we found that religious people were less self-deceptive than non-believers.

Religion