Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F23%3A00130795" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130795 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/gods-are-watching-and-so-what-moralistic-supernatural-punishment-across-15-cultures/296B21A5369E7D2459E8634DB2DE3F50" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/gods-are-watching-and-so-what-moralistic-supernatural-punishment-across-15-cultures/296B21A5369E7D2459E8634DB2DE3F50</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15" target="_blank" >10.1017/ehs.2023.15</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures
Original language description
Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive and monitoring gods that care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to sug- gest that belief in supernatural punishment and monitoring generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect of a deity’s explicitly postulated moral concerns on cooperation remains unclear. Here, we report a pre-registered set of analyses to assess whether perceiving a locally relevant deity as moralistic predicts cooperative play in two permutations of two economic games using data from up to 15 diverse field sites. Across games, results suggest that gods’ moral concerns do not play a direct, cross-culturally reliable role in motivating cooperative behaviour. The study contributes substantially to the current literature by test- ing a central hypothesis in the evolutionary and cognitive science of religion with a large and culturally diverse dataset using behavioural and ethnographically rich methods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Evolutionary Human Sciences
ISSN
2513-843X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
5
Issue of the periodical within the volume
e18
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1-15
UT code for WoS article
001010982800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85160825663