Excitation transfer and religious rituals : influencing other
people’s attitudes by using behavioral means

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Excitation transfer and religious rituals : influencing other people’s attitudes by using behavioral means

KUNDT, Radek

Basic information

Original name

Excitation transfer and religious rituals : influencing other people’s attitudes by using behavioral means

Authors

KUNDT, Radek (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Explaining religion : method, theory and experiment, 2012

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Country of publisher

Greece

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/12:00062060

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

excitation transfer; religious ritual; prosociality; laboratory behavioral experiment

Abstract

V originále

Arousal can be used to alter (mainly amplify) various things. It has been shown on individual level that arousal produces residual excitement that servers to intensify later emotional states like aggression (Zillman, 1971), sexual attraction (Dutton & Aron, 1974) or sense of humour (Cantor et al, 1974). My interest is if I can use physiological arousal to amplify even more complex things and on a group level. For example pro-social behaviour or anti-social behaviour. In this paper I outline the background of my research. Among the assumptions determining possible results are: favoring explanatory theories, favoring multidisciplinary approach, favoring evolutionary perspective, favoring naturalistic frameworks of the study of religion in general and favoring experimental paradigm. I argue that it is possible and useful to use quantification even in the study of cultural phenomena such as religious ritualized collective action. To illustrate the argument, I will use as an example my own laboratory research on the influence of autonomic arousal on pro-social behavior which main hypothesis might be phrased as follows. Increase in physiological arousal (given the right conditions for excitation transfer to occur) will result in either increase or decrease of prosocial behavior (given the right prime).

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

KUNDT, Radek. Excitation transfer and religious rituals : influencing other people’s attitudes by using behavioral means. In Explaining religion : method, theory and experiment. 2012.

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KUNDT, Radek. Excitation transfer and religious rituals : influencing other people’s attitudes by using behavioral means. In \textit{Explaining religion : method, theory and experiment}. 2012.

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