A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

Suzanne Hoogeveen; Alexandra Sarafoglou; Balazs Aczel; Yonathan Aditya; Alexandra J. Alayan; Peter J. Allen; Sacha Altay; Shilaan Alzahawi; Yulmaida Amir; Francis-Vincent Anthony; Obed Kwame Appiah; Quentin D. Atkinson; Adam Baimel; Merve Balkaya-Ince; Michela Balsamo; Sachin Banker; Frantisek Bartos; Mario Becerra; Bertrand Beffara; Julia Beitner; Theiss Bendixen; Jana B. Berkessel; Renatas Berniunas; Matthew Billet; Joseph Billingsley; Tiago Bortolini; Heiko Breitsohl; Amelie Bret; Faith L. Brown; Jennifer Brown; Claudia C. Brumbaugh; Jacek Buczny; Joseph Bulbulia; Saul Caballero; Leonardo Carlucci; Cheryl L. Carmichael; Marco E. G. Cattaneo; Sarah J. Charles; Scott Claessens; Maxinne C. Panagopoulos; Angelo Brandelli Costa; Damien L. Crone; Stefan Czoschke; Christian Czymara; E. Damiano D'Urso; Orjan Dahlstrom; Anna Dalla Rosa; Henrik Danielsson; Jill De Ron; Ymkje Anna de Vries; Kristy K. Dean; Bryan J. Dik; David J. Disabato; Jaclyn K. Doherty; Tim Draws; Lucas Drouhot; Marin Dujmovic; Yarrow Dunham; Tobias Ebert; Peter A. Edelsbrunner; Anita Eerland; Christian T. Elbaek; Shole Farahmand; Hooman Farahmand; Miguel Farias; Abrey A. Feliccia; Kyle Fischer; Ronald Fischer; Donna Fisher-Thompson; Zoe Francis; Susanne Frick; Lisa K. Frisch; Diogo Geraldes; Emily Gerdin; Linda Geven; Omid Ghasemi; Erwin Gielens; Vukasin Gligoric; Kristin Hagel; Nandor Hajdu; Hannah R. Hamilton; Imaduddin Hamzah; Paul H. P. Hanel; Christopher E. Hawk; Karel K. Himawan; Benjamin C. Holding; Lina E. Homman; Moritz Ingendahl; Hilla Inkila; Mary L. Inman; Chris-Gabriel Islam; Ozan Isler; David Izydorczyk; Bastian Jaeger; Kathryn A. Johnson; Jonathan Jong; Johannes A. Karl; Erikson Kaszubowski; Benjamin A. Katz; Lucas A. Keefer; Stijn Kelchtermans; John M. Kelly; Richard A. Klein; Bennett Kleinberg; Megan L. Knowles; Marta Kolczynska; Dave Koller; Julia Krasko; Sarah Kritzler; Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos; Thanos Kyritsis; Todd L. Landes; Ruben Laukenmann; Guy A. Lavender Forsyth; Aryeh Lazar; Barbara J. Lehman; Neil Levy; Ronda F. Lo; Paul Lodder; Jennifer Lorenz; Pawel Lowicki; Albert L. Ly; Esther Maassen; Gina M. Magyar-Russell; Maximilian Maier; Dylan R. Marsh; Nuria Martinez; Marcellin Martinie; Ihan Martoyo; Susan E. Mason; Anne Lundahl Mauritsen; Phil McAleer; Thomas McCauley; Michael McCullough; Ryan McKay; Camilla M. McMahon; Amelia A. McNamara; Kira K. Means; Brett Mercier; Panagiotis Mitkidis; Benoit Monin; Jordan W. Moon; David Moreau; Jonathan Morgan; James Murphy; George Muscatt; Christof Nagel; Tamas Nagy; Ladislas Nalborczyk; Gustav Nilsonne; Pamina Noack; Ara Norenzayan; Michele B. Nuijten; Anton Olsson-Collentine; Lluis Oviedo; Yuri G. Pavlov; James O. Pawelski; Hannah Pearson; Hugo Pedder; Hannah K. Peetz; Michael Pinus; Steven Pirutinsky; Vince Polito; Michaela Porubanova; Michael J. Poulin; Jason M. Prenoveau; Mark A. Prince; John Protzko; Campbell Pryor; Benjamin G. Purzycki; Lin Qiu; Julian Quevedo Putter; Andre Rabelo; Milen L. Radell; Jonathan E. Ramsay; Graham Reid; Andrew J. Roberts; Lindsey M. Root Luna; Robert M. Ross; Piotr Roszak; Nirmal Roy; Suvi-Maria K. Saarelainen; Joni Y. Sasaki; Catherine Schaumans; Bruno Schivinski; Marcel C. Schmitt; Sarah A. Schnitker; Martin Schnuerch; Marcel R. Schreiner; Victoria Schuttengruber; Simone Sebben; Suzanne C. Segerstrom; Berenika Seryczynska; Uffe Shjoedt; Muge Simsek; Willem W. A. Sleegers; Eliot R. Smith; Walter J. Sowden; Marion Spath; Christoph Sporlein; William Stedden; Andrea H. Stoevenbelt; Simon Stuber; Justin Sulik; Christiany Suwartono; Stylianos Syropoulos; Barnabas Szaszi; Peter Szecsi; Ben M. Tappin; Louis Tay; Robert T. Thibault; Burt Thompson; Christian M. Thurn; Josefa Torralba; Shelby D. Tuthill; Ann-Marie Ullein; Robbie C. M. Van Aert; Marcel A. L. M. van Assen; Patty Van Cappellen; Olmo R. van den Akker; Ine Van der Cruyssen; Jolanda Van der Noll; Noah N. N. van Dongen; Caspar J. Van Lissa; Valerie van Mulukom; Don van Ravenzwaaij; Casper J. J. van Zyl; Leigh Ann Vaughn; Bruno Verschuere; Michelangelo Vianello; Felipe Vilanova; Allon Vishkin; Vera Vogel; Leonie V. D. E. Vogelsmeier; Shoko Watanabe; Cindel J. M. White; Kristina Wiebels; Sera Wiechert; Zachary Z. Willett; Maciej Witkowiak; Charlotte V. O. Witvliet; Dylan Wiwad; Robin Wuyts; Dimitris Xygalatas; Xin Yang; Darren J. Yeo; Onurcan Yilmaz; Natalia Zarzeczna; Yitong Zhao; Josjan Zijlmans; Michiel van Elk; Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

doi:10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255

A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

Suzanne Hoogeveen^*, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balazs Aczel, Yonathan Aditya, Alexandra J. Alayan, Peter J. Allen, Sacha Altay, Shilaan Alzahawi, Yulmaida Amir, Francis-Vincent Anthony, Obed Kwame Appiah, Quentin D. Atkinson, Adam Baimel, Merve Balkaya-Ince, Michela Balsamo, Sachin Banker, Frantisek Bartos, Mario Becerra, Bertrand Beffara, Julia BeitnerTheiss Bendixen, Jana B. Berkessel, Renatas Berniunas, Matthew Billet, Joseph Billingsley, Tiago Bortolini, Heiko Breitsohl, Amelie Bret, Faith L. Brown, Jennifer Brown, Claudia C. Brumbaugh, Jacek Buczny, Joseph Bulbulia, Saul Caballero, Leonardo Carlucci, Cheryl L. Carmichael, Marco E. G. Cattaneo, Sarah J. Charles, Scott Claessens, Maxinne C. Panagopoulos, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Damien L. Crone, Stefan Czoschke, Christian Czymara, E. Damiano D'Urso, Orjan Dahlstrom, Anna Dalla Rosa, Henrik Danielsson, Jill De Ron, Ymkje Anna de Vries, Kristy K. Dean, Bryan J. Dik, David J. Disabato, Jaclyn K. Doherty, Tim Draws, Lucas Drouhot, Marin Dujmovic, Yarrow Dunham, Tobias Ebert, Peter A. Edelsbrunner, Anita Eerland, Christian T. Elbaek, Shole Farahmand, Hooman Farahmand, Miguel Farias, Abrey A. Feliccia, Kyle Fischer, Ronald Fischer, Donna Fisher-Thompson, Zoe Francis, Susanne Frick, Lisa K. Frisch, Diogo Geraldes, Emily Gerdin, Linda Geven, Omid Ghasemi, Erwin Gielens, Vukasin Gligoric, Kristin Hagel, Nandor Hajdu, Hannah R. Hamilton, Imaduddin Hamzah, Paul H. P. Hanel, Christopher E. Hawk, Karel K. Himawan, Benjamin C. Holding, Lina E. Homman, Moritz Ingendahl, Hilla Inkila, Mary L. Inman, Chris-Gabriel Islam, Ozan Isler, David Izydorczyk, Bastian Jaeger, Kathryn A. Johnson, Jonathan Jong, Johannes A. Karl, Erikson Kaszubowski, Benjamin A. Katz, Lucas A. Keefer, Stijn Kelchtermans, John M. Kelly, Richard A. Klein, Bennett Kleinberg, Megan L. Knowles, Marta Kolczynska, Dave Koller, Julia Krasko, Sarah Kritzler, Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos, Thanos Kyritsis, Todd L. Landes, Ruben Laukenmann, Guy A. Lavender Forsyth, Aryeh Lazar, Barbara J. Lehman, Neil Levy, Ronda F. Lo, Paul Lodder, Jennifer Lorenz, Pawel Lowicki, Albert L. Ly, Esther Maassen, Gina M. Magyar-Russell, Maximilian Maier, Dylan R. Marsh, Nuria Martinez, Marcellin Martinie, Ihan Martoyo, Susan E. Mason, Anne Lundahl Mauritsen, Phil McAleer, Thomas McCauley, Michael McCullough, Ryan McKay, Camilla M. McMahon, Amelia A. McNamara, Kira K. Means, Brett Mercier, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Benoit Monin, Jordan W. Moon, David Moreau, Jonathan Morgan, James Murphy, George Muscatt, Christof Nagel, Tamas Nagy, Ladislas Nalborczyk, Gustav Nilsonne, Pamina Noack, Ara Norenzayan, Michele B. Nuijten, Anton Olsson-Collentine, Lluis Oviedo, Yuri G. Pavlov, James O. Pawelski, Hannah Pearson, Hugo Pedder, Hannah K. Peetz, Michael Pinus, Steven Pirutinsky, Vince Polito, Michaela Porubanova, Michael J. Poulin, Jason M. Prenoveau, Mark A. Prince, John Protzko, Campbell Pryor, Benjamin G. Purzycki, Lin Qiu, Julian Quevedo Putter, Andre Rabelo, Milen L. Radell, Jonathan E. Ramsay, Graham Reid, Andrew J. Roberts, Lindsey M. Root Luna, Robert M. Ross, Piotr Roszak, Nirmal Roy, Suvi-Maria K. Saarelainen, Joni Y. Sasaki, Catherine Schaumans, Bruno Schivinski, Marcel C. Schmitt, Sarah A. Schnitker, Martin Schnuerch, Marcel R. Schreiner, Victoria Schuttengruber, Simone Sebben, Suzanne C. Segerstrom, Berenika Seryczynska, Uffe Shjoedt, Muge Simsek, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Eliot R. Smith, Walter J. Sowden, Marion Spath, Christoph Sporlein, William Stedden, Andrea H. Stoevenbelt, Simon Stuber, Justin Sulik, Christiany Suwartono, Stylianos Syropoulos, Barnabas Szaszi, Peter Szecsi, Ben M. Tappin, Louis Tay, Robert T. Thibault, Burt Thompson, Christian M. Thurn, Josefa Torralba, Shelby D. Tuthill, Ann-Marie Ullein, Robbie C. M. Van Aert, Marcel A. L. M. van Assen, Patty Van Cappellen, Olmo R. van den Akker, Ine Van der Cruyssen, Jolanda Van der Noll, Noah N. N. van Dongen, Caspar J. Van Lissa, Valerie van Mulukom, Don van Ravenzwaaij, Casper J. J. van Zyl, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Bruno Verschuere, Michelangelo Vianello, Felipe Vilanova, Allon Vishkin, Vera Vogel, Leonie V. D. E. Vogelsmeier, Shoko Watanabe, Cindel J. M. White, Kristina Wiebels, Sera Wiechert, Zachary Z. Willett, Maciej Witkowiak, Charlotte V. O. Witvliet, Dylan Wiwad, Robin Wuyts, Dimitris Xygalatas, Xin Yang, Darren J. Yeo, Onurcan Yilmaz, Natalia Zarzeczna, Yitong Zhao, Josjan Zijlmans, Michiel van Elk, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

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The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N = 10, 535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, and (2) whether the relation between religiosity and self-reported well-being depends on perceived cultural norms of religion (i.e., whether it is considered normal and desirable to be religious in a given country). In a two-stage procedure, the teams first created an analysis plan and then executed their planned analysis on the data. For the first research question, all but 3 teams reported positive effect sizes with credible/confidence intervals excluding zero (median reported beta = 0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported beta = 0.039). While most teams applied (multilevel) linear regression models, there was considerable variability in the choice of items used to construct the independent variables, the dependent variable, and the included covariates.

Original language	English
Journal	Religion, Brain, and Behavior
Volume	13
Issue	3
Pages (from-to)	237-283
Number of pages	47
ISSN	2153-599X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

Health
many analysts
open science
religion
MENTAL-HEALTH
PEOPLE HAPPY
LIFE
SPIRITUALITY
REPLICATION
INVOLVEMENT
PERSPECTIVE
CONSENSUS
HAPPINESS
CULTURE

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Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., Aditya, Y., Alayan, A. J., Allen, P. J., Altay, S., Alzahawi, S., Amir, Y., Anthony, F.-V., Appiah, O. K., Atkinson, Q. D., Baimel, A., Balkaya-Ince, M., Balsamo, M., Banker, S., Bartos, F., Becerra, M., Beffara, B., ... Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2023). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 13(3), 237-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255

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PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N = 10, 535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, and (2) whether the relation between religiosity and self-reported well-being depends on perceived cultural norms of religion (i.e., whether it is considered normal and desirable to be religious in a given country). In a two-stage procedure, the teams first created an analysis plan and then executed their planned analysis on the data. For the first research question, all but 3 teams reported positive effect sizes with credible/confidence intervals excluding zero (median reported beta = 0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported beta = 0.039). While most teams applied (multilevel) linear regression models, there was considerable variability in the choice of items used to construct the independent variables, the dependent variable, and the included covariates.

AB - The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N = 10, 535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-being, and (2) whether the relation between religiosity and self-reported well-being depends on perceived cultural norms of religion (i.e., whether it is considered normal and desirable to be religious in a given country). In a two-stage procedure, the teams first created an analysis plan and then executed their planned analysis on the data. For the first research question, all but 3 teams reported positive effect sizes with credible/confidence intervals excluding zero (median reported beta = 0.120). For the second research question, this was the case for 65% of the teams (median reported beta = 0.039). While most teams applied (multilevel) linear regression models, there was considerable variability in the choice of items used to construct the independent variables, the dependent variable, and the included covariates.

KW - Health

KW - many analysts

KW - open science

KW - religion

KW - MENTAL-HEALTH

KW - PEOPLE HAPPY

KW - LIFE

KW - SPIRITUALITY

KW - REPLICATION

KW - INVOLVEMENT

KW - PERSPECTIVE

KW - CONSENSUS

KW - HAPPINESS

KW - CULTURE

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133459286&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255

DO - 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2153-599X

VL - 13

SP - 237

EP - 283

JO - Religion, Brain, and Behavior

JF - Religion, Brain, and Behavior

IS - 3

ER -

A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

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