| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 心理學研究所 === 105 === Are different religions associated with different social, cognitive, and emotional styles? Although the worldwide major religions are known to encourage social interactions and help regulate emotions, it is unclear to what extent adherents of various religions differ in these dimensions. We observed quantitative differences in language use between Christians and Buddhists on Twitter and found the possible source of these differences in religious sacred texts. On Twitter, Christians used more social-interaction-related words and fewer reasoning-related words than Buddhists, but they did not differ in the amount of emotion expressions. We found a mirrored pattern between language use on Twitter and in the Bible and the Buddhist sacred texts, which suggested that adherents might be influenced by the religious texts they read. This study provided an example to the understudied area of behavioral differences between adherents in various religions in a natural, experimenter-free setting.
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