The role of the emotions in magical beliefs and practices

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The role of the emotions in magical beliefs and practices

JEROTIJEVIĆ, Danijela

Basic information

Original name

The role of the emotions in magical beliefs and practices

Authors

JEROTIJEVIĆ, Danijela (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Homo Experimentalis : experimental approaches in the study of religion, Brno, 25-27 October 2012, 2012

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061703

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

emotions; disgust; magic; efficacy; ritual

Abstract

V originále

The project is related to magical practices and perception of their efficacy. Psychologists Paul Rozin and Carol Nemerroff demonstrated that magical beliefs/practices are based on the idea of contamination. As defined by psychologists and biologists, contamination involves transmission of a contaminated substance from a source (a person or an object), that is also "a vehicle" of this substance, to a recipient (another person or object). In some cases, contamination includes a medium that transfers a contaminated substance from the source to the recipient. This substance (essence) then becomes part of the recipient's body (Rozin, Nemeroff 1990, p. 207). Contamination activates strong emotions of disgust and fear; any contact with contaminated things, however minor, is repulsive (Bloom, 2004, p. 159). According to evolutionary psychologists, these emotions are an outcome of an evolutionary pressure that might keep us from contact with toxic substances and objects that might cause disease. Although what is disgusting is culturally determined, universally those substances that spontaneously trigger disgust are objects likely to contain infectious agents, including dead bodies, rotting foods, and bodily fluids such as feces, phlegm, vomit, blood, and semen, and it motivates proximal avoidance of such things (Tybur, Lieberman, Griskevicius 2009).

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

JEROTIJEVIĆ, Danijela. The role of the emotions in magical beliefs and practices. In Homo Experimentalis : experimental approaches in the study of religion, Brno, 25-27 October 2012. 2012.

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JEROTIJEVI$\backslash$'C, Danijela. The role of the emotions in magical beliefs and practices. In \textit{Homo Experimentalis : experimental approaches in the study of religion, Brno, 25-27 October 2012}. 2012.

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