Several studies have shown that religious concepts and contexts can influence cognitions and attitudes. Wenger  found that when committed Christians were subliminally primed with religious words, they were more likely to apply their religious beliefs when evaluating historical events compared to participants who were not exposed to the primes. Subliminally priming participants with Christian religious words can increase both implicit and explicit negative attitudes towards various out-groups including African Americans, atheists, Muslims, and gay men  and can increase in-group favoritism . Participants’ religiosity and spirituality did not change the effect of religious priming . When participants were assessed as they passed a religious structure, a condition that can be considered a religious situational context prime, they reported more negative views of non-Christians and more conservative political views than those assessed in front of a non-religious structure . Interestingly, this effect was present regardless of participants’ belief in God . Therefore, it appears that simply priming people with religious concepts, iconography, or architecture is enough to increase negative attitudes towards perceived out-groups.