How do religions inspire people to be good?

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You're correct. So religion can cause psychopaths to behave as if they cared about other people, even though they don't.

I suppose what I was thinking of in the OP is how can religion change someone so that they want to do good things just because they are good things, and not just because their religions tells them to? I feel some theists have implied in other threads that this happens. And I don't get how or why.

I suppose they could see one of their religious characters as a good role model, and it could make them re-assess what kind of person they are. But then that's not really a religious thing, it's just being inspired by a good person.