title: Protestant relational ideology and (in)attention to relational cues in work settings.
abstract: M. Weber (1947) proposed that exposure to Calvinist Protestantism is associated with limited attention to relational concerns in work settings. Two experiments provide support for this proposition. Study 1 showed that Protestant European Americans raised in traditions of Calvinism were less attentive to affect in spoken words when primed with a work context relative to a nonwork context, and to participants raised as Catholics in either context. Study 2 used an unconscious mimicry paradigm to measure relational focus and showed that within a work setting, male Protestants mimicked a confederate's foot shaking less than male non-Protestants and women in either group. Within a nonwork setting, male Protestants mimicked more and did not differ from male non-Protestants. Women showed greater mimicry than men.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor 48109, USA. jeffrysb@bus.umich.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Burks
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002140:California; D002410:Catholicism; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004644:Emotions; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D033303:Protestantism / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D012951:Socialization