No Religion College Students’ Emotional Inclination Of Buddhism,Christianity

Non-religious people’s emotional inclination of religion is a part of the folk religion concept,a element of religion stereotype, it means the implicit attitude or emotional tendencies about religion that exists in the general public.China is a unique country that its mainstream are atheists who belief in Communist. Unlike Western countries, in China, atheists have considerable impact on life quality of religious people. Thus, it is clearly inappropriate that Chinese researches on psychology of religion copy the Western mode. Moreover, localization studies should be considered in such a distinctive background.Buddhism and Christianity are currently the two most influential religions, even non-religious college students have some knowledge of them, and therefore this article choose them as representatives of all Chinese religions to investigate. Because of the explicit measurements may be affected by additional factors such as mainstream opinion, social desirability, and domestic religious psychologists haven’t apply Implicit Measures-a common technique from social cognitive psychology-to their studies. This article intends to pioneer the use of Go/no-go Association Test (GNAT), which is one of the best implicit measurement paradigm, in domestic research on psychology of religion. Another innovation of this research is reflected in the data analysis, multi-model is the latest interpretation model for implicit measures that is developed by foreign researcher. It is more efficient than reaction and sensitivity indicators, which has not been used so far in China. Therefore, this article attempts to explore whether non-religious college students have positive emotional inclination toward Buddhism, Christianity through implicit measure plus multi-model analysis. By means of walking with world’s pace and reflecting Chinese unique feature to make my own contribution for Chinese psychology of religion.This research consists of two parts, five experiments. Part one is made up of three experiments, which are used to investigate whether non-religious college students have positive emotional inclination of Buddhism, Christianity and if preference exists between Buddhism and Christianity. Part two have two experiments to study whether Buddhism positive affective priming or pair concept can influence such emotional inclination of Buddhism. All participants of the5experiments are selected from some University in Zhejiang.The conclusions indicate that:1. No religion college students (NRCS) have shown a neutral attitude to Buddhism and Christianity. However, under the influence of Buddhism positive emotion priming, their emotional inclination of Buddhism leaned to positive side. In contrast, when using the concept of "association" as Buddhism’s pair concept, produced two different results:First, NRCS showed significantly negative emotional inclination about Buddhism; Second, they showed a positive emotional inclination of association.2. Accuracy of sensitivity exceeds reactions. Triple model analysis not only has the same accuracy as sensitivity, and it also able to provide information on detection and guessing. So its reliability and high efficiency have been confirmed by this research.3. Since the response deadline was short in this study, Detection value was relatively lower than foreign similar value. Furthermore, our participants have a lower Guessing value with respect to foreign one, implying a relatively conservative (bias toward "no-go") tendency, which may be a reflection of the different national characters.Conclusion:Education of atheism and dialectical materialism go deep into the heart of the college students. In the face of the ubiquitous infiltration of Buddhism, Christianity thought, they keep their senses and neutral attitude. Neutral Buddhism is a two-way change emotional inclination, but more likely to tilt towards the negative side.