Inducing anxiety in a laboratory setting results in ritualized behavior
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angličtina
Original language name
Inducing anxiety in a laboratory setting results in ritualized behavior
Original language description
Rituals exist in every human society, and despite incredible cross cultural diversity, there are several fundamental features common to the majority of them. At the cultural level, rituals are associated with times of stress, and uncertainty. At the individual level, there exist universal "ritualized behaviors," often assumed to assuage anxiety. Boyer and Liénard theorize that ritualized behaviors are the result of cognitive structures that urge diligent focus on ongoing actions whose activation resultsin anxiety reduction. The generally recognized characteristics of ritualized behavior are: non-functionality, rigidity, repetitiveness, and compulsiveness. If Boyer and Liénard are correct then individuals who are more anxious ought to engage in behaviors that are more ritualized. We tested the hypothesis that anxious people engage in more repetitive, rigid and redundant behavioral movement.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů