How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? An Experimental Field Study Comparing Nine Ritual Types

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F13%3A00091808" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/13:00091808 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? An Experimental Field Study Comparing Nine Ritual Types

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Collective rituals have long puzzled anthropologists, yet little is known about how rituals affect participants. Our study investigated the effects of nine naturally occurring rituals on prosociality. We operationalized prosociality as (1) attitudes about fellow ritual participants and (2) decisions in a public goods game. The nine rituals varied in levels of synchrony and levels of sacred attribution. We found that rituals with synchronous body movements were more likely to enhance prosocial attitudes. We also found that rituals judged to be sacred were associated with the largest contributions in the public goods game. Path analysis favored a model in which sacred values mediate the effects of synchronous movements on prosocial behaviors. Our analysis offers the first quantitative evidence for the long-standing anthropological conjecture that rituals orchestrate body motions and sacred values to support prosociality.

Název v anglickém jazyce

How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? An Experimental Field Study Comparing Nine Ritual Types

Popis výsledku anglicky

Collective rituals have long puzzled anthropologists, yet little is known about how rituals affect participants. Our study investigated the effects of nine naturally occurring rituals on prosociality. We operationalized prosociality as (1) attitudes about fellow ritual participants and (2) decisions in a public goods game. The nine rituals varied in levels of synchrony and levels of sacred attribution. We found that rituals with synchronous body movements were more likely to enhance prosocial attitudes. We also found that rituals judged to be sacred were associated with the largest contributions in the public goods game. Path analysis favored a model in which sacred values mediate the effects of synchronous movements on prosocial behaviors. Our analysis offers the first quantitative evidence for the long-standing anthropological conjecture that rituals orchestrate body motions and sacred values to support prosociality.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AA - Filosofie a náboženství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Human Nature

ISSN

1045-6767

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

115-125

Kód UT WoS článku

000319352000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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