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Jeremy Ginges

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Social psychologist @LSE studying cooperation and conflict across cultural divides

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Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · Jul 17

During these terrible days of Israel’s genocide in Gaza , it’s easy to come to the false conclusion that conflict is inevitable and rests on deep differences such as attachment to different types of religious belief. The JPSP paper described by Mikey in this thread below is a nice antidote.

Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · Jul 17

Now out in JPSP! Behavioral economic experiments w/ Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews in the U.S., Israel and Fiji show that belief in God can facilitate cooperation, even across religious divides! More about our work (co-led with @jeremyginges.bsky.social) below! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Screenshot of title and abstract of paper, "In their God we trust: Religious Cognition increases cooperation across religious divides."

Abstract: Belief in moralizing Gods is widely thought to foster cooperation between coreligionists, but there is disagreement regarding whether this effect is limited to the religious ingroup or if it extends to members of religious outgroups. Here we report the results of a cross-cultural research program that demonstrates that people who think about God (a) are more trusted by both coreligionists and members of other religious groups and (b) typically behave in a more trustworthy manner toward both ingroups and outgroups. We ran three preregistered
studies (N= 1,784) with Christians and Muslims in the United States, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Christians and Hindus in Fiji. Our contexts varied in multiple ways, including the level of intergroup conflict.
Using two-player trust games involving real money, we varied whether participants interacted with ingroup or outgroup members and whether reciprocators considered God when deciding how much to return to trustors. We nd in each context that making moralizing God beliefs of one player salient enhances both intragroup and intergroup cooperation. Our ndings add to a nascent literature documenting the potential for religious cognition to extend moral norms across intergroup divides. We discuss implications for theories of the emergence of moralizing Gods and implications for public debates about religious pluralism in diverse societies.

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Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 6d

The statement, which Trump shared on social media, also includes the word genocide.

Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 6d

Hamas’s statement, that Trump seemed to welcome, has flipped the script on Netanyahu. Essentially they have taken us back to the third stage of the last ceasefire agreement - the agreement Israel broke to avoid the very negotiations Hamas is calling for.

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Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 8d

I’m filled with horror hearing about the violent synagogue attack in Manchester. Messages of solidarity like this one have helped

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

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Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 13d

Many are afraid to act, intimidated by disinformation and fear of being labelled as antisemitic. Clear statements and clear calls for action would help

Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 13d

In your original letter, two years ago, you wrote asking the community to condemn the actions of Hamas, calling it a moral imperative. This type of call is absent in the current letter. Asking the community to condemn and act to stop Israel’s genocide would be very powerful.

Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 13d

Apart from a few individuals I don’t know much about what the signatories do and the comments were not directed towards individuals but to the letter and collective organized responses.

Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 13d

I want particularly talking about divesting from the academic community (i don’t think that’s so important in stopping the genocide). I was thinking of broader action. And of course Israel is not the source of evil in the world - I don’t think that implication can be found in my comments.

Jeremy Ginges @jeremyginges.bsky.social · 13d

I do support all efforts to end the genocide. There are organizations in Israel that act to oppose the genocide, but the academy has not been one of those. The letter did not describe any efforts to end the genocide for me to support. I think that would be helpful.