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Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies
We often think of pain as intrinsically bad, and the avoidance of pain is a fundamental evolutionary drive of all species. How can we then explain widespread cultural practices like certain rituals…
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The Burning Saints: Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria
The Anastenaria are Orthodox Christians in Northern Greece who observe a unique annual ritual cycle focused on two festivals, dedicated to Saint Constantine and Saint Helen. The festivals involve…
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Religious Veiling as a Mate-Guarding Strategy: Effects of Environmental Pressures on Cultural Practices
Male parental investment can contribute to the fitness of both sexes through increased fertility and child survivorship. The level and intensity of parental investment are dependent upon ecological…
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Cognitive Science of Religion
  • D. Xygalatas
  • Psychology
    Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion
  • 2020
The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) is an academic discipline which studies the mental capacities and processes that underlie recurrent patterns of religious thought and behavior. The main focus…
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Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius
ABSTRACT Research testing evolutionary models of religious morality shows that supernatural beliefs in moralizing gods positively affect prosociality. However, the effects of beliefs related to local…
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IS RITUAL BEHAVIOR A RESPONSE TO ANXIETY?
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This chapter describes the operationalization of Malinowski's hypothesis that rituals occur in the time of uncertainty and presents results of the laboratory experiment.
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Being in a crowd bonds people via physiological synchrony
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The findings suggest that the social effects of sports depend substantially on the inter-personal dynamics unfolding among fans, rather than being prompted simply by watching the game itself, which has potentially wide-reaching implications for many domains of collective human interaction.
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Ritual and cohesion. What is the place of euphoric arousal
In this target article, Whitehouse and Lanman present a general and testable theory of the relationship between ritual, cohesion, and cooperation. They frame their theory in terms of empirically…
Effects of extreme ritual practices on health
Extremni ritualy zahrnujici bolestive tělesne mutilace, zůstavaji kvůli nedostatku ocividných fitness benefitů při vysokem riziku zraněni, traumatu ci infekce evolucni hadankou. Jednim z navrhovaných…
3-dimensional agent representations increase generosity in a naturalistic setting
Jednim z běžných a významných aspektů naseho žiteho prostředi jsou vjemy naležejici k intencionalnim akterům, tyto zahrnuji lidi, zviřata i reprezentace nadpřirozených osobnosti. Předchazejici studie…
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