The Fire-Walker's High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F14%3A00075077" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/14:00075077 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088355" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088355</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088355" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0088355</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Fire-Walker's High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual
Original language description
How do people feel during extreme collective rituals? Despite longstanding speculation, few studies have attempted to quantify ritual experiences. Using a novel pre/post design, we quantified physiological fluctuations (heart rates) and self-reported affective states from a collective fire-walking ritual in a Mauritian Hindu community. Specifically, we compared changes in levels of happiness, fatigue, and heart rate reactivity among high-ordeal participants (fire-walkers), low-ordeal participants (non-fire-walking participants with familial bonds to fire-walkers) and spectators (unrelated/unknown to the fire-walkers). We observed that fire-walkers experienced the highest increase in heart rate and reported greater happiness post-ritual compared to low-ordeal participants and spectators. Low-ordeal participants reported increased fatigue after the ritual compared to both fire-walkers and spectators, suggesting empathetic identification effects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS ONE
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
1-6
UT code for WoS article
000331714700014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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