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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/12:00061703
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English emotions; disgust; magic; efficacy; ritual
Tags rivok
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Abstract
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).
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EE2.3.20.0048, research and development projectName: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství
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