Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual
- I. Konvalinka, D. Xygalatas, A. Roepstorff
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2 May 2011
It is demonstrated that a collective ritual may evoke synchronized arousal over time between active participants and bystanders, and offers a unique approach for the quantification of social effects on human physiology during real-world interactions.
Let’s Dance Together: Synchrony, Shared Intentionality and Cooperation
- P. Reddish, Ronald Fischer, J. Bulbulia
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 7 August 2013
The reinforcement of cooperation model helps to explain the evolutionary conservation of traditional music and dance performances, and suggests that the collectivist values of such cultures may be an essential part of the mechanisms by which synchrony galvanises cooperative behaviours.
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being.
- C. Sibley, Lara M. Greaves, F. Barlow
- PsychologyAmerican Psychologist
- 4 June 2020
The study found that people in the pandemic/lockdown group reported higher trust in science, politicians, and police, higher levels of patriotism, and higher rates of mental distress compared to people inThe prelockdown prepandemic group.
The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion
- J. Bulbulia
- Psychology
- 1 November 2004
The following reviews recent developments in the cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion, and argues for an adaptationist stance.
To be in synchrony or not? A meta-analysis of synchrony's effects on behavior, perception, cognition and affect
- Reneeta Mogan, R. Fischer, J. Bulbulia
- Psychology
- 1 September 2017
The ecology of religious beliefs
- C. Botero, B. Gardner, K. Kirby, J. Bulbulia, M. Gavin, R. Gray
- SociologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 10 November 2014
It is shown that the spatial prevalence of human societies that believe in moralizing high gods can be predicted with a high level of accuracy (91%) from historical, social, and ecological data, and the relative importance of different potential mechanisms by which this spatial pattern may have arisen is estimated.
Religious Costs as Adaptations that Signal Altruistic Intention
- J. Bulbulia
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 2004
Below I use research in theoretical biology to shed light on the nature and function of supernatural cognition, and suggest some promising new paths of psychological inquiry these new understandings…
Extreme Rituals Promote Prosociality
- Dimitris Xygalatas, P. Mitkidis, J. Bulbulia
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 5 June 2013
Using economic measures of generosity and contextually relevant indicators of group identity in a real-world setting, pro- social effects from naturally occurring rituals that varied in severity are evaluated.
Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions
- U. Schjoedt, J. Sørensen, K. Nielbo, Dimitris Xygalatas, P. Mitkidis, J. Bulbulia
- Psychology
- 7 January 2013
Abstract We explore the cognitive effects of three common features of religious interactions: (1) demand for the expressive suppression of emotion; (2) exposure to goal-demoted and causally opaque…
The Fire-Walker’s High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual
- Ronald Fischer, Dimitris Xygalatas, J. Bulbulia
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 20 February 2014
Physiological fluctuations (heart rates) and self-reported affective states from a collective fire-walking ritual in a Mauritian Hindu community demonstrate that the level of ritual involvement is important for shaping affective responses to collective rituals.
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