Highly Arousing Rituals in Laboratory Settings: Effects of
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Highly Arousing Rituals in Laboratory Settings: Effects of Excitation on Helping Behaviour

KUNDT, Radek, Paul REDDISH, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS

Základní údaje

Originální název

Highly Arousing Rituals in Laboratory Settings: Effects of Excitation on Helping Behaviour

Autoři

KUNDT, Radek, Paul REDDISH, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS

Vydání

"Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives" International Krakow Study of Religions Symposium, 27–29 October 2014, Krakow, Poland, 2014

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Stát vydavatele

Polsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

High arousal; laboratory experiment; prosocial behaviour; helping behaviour; excitation; ritual; religion

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 21. 11. 2016 10:58, Mgr. et Mgr. Radek Kundt, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

It has been suggested that religious rituals have significant prosocial effects, be they expressions of assortative sociality (in-group favouritism including hostility towards out-groups) or extended prosociality. Recent empirical research has started to examine specific aspects of collective rituals that might be important in modulating attitudes and behaviour (e.g. synchronous movement). Many rituals involve highly arousing stimuli and recent field studies show that such rituals can promote pro-social behaviour among participants as well as spectators. However, it is yet to be established how arousal may influence sociality and under what conditions arousal may produce pro-social or anti-social effects. This paper discusses the results of our recent study conducted in controlled conditions in Brno, Czech Republic, where we experimentally tested, using video games as stimulus, whether autonomic arousal can influence social behaviour. More specifically, whether physiological arousal (given the right conditions for excitation transfer to occur) can result in increased pro-social or anti-social behaviour (given the right prime) Our rationale is based on the Excitation transfer theory from previous psychological research which states that, if certain conditions are met, arousal elicited by one stimulus can be mistakenly attributed to another. I will argue that it is not only possible but also useful to use experimental method in the study of cultural phenomena such as religious rituals and I will use our laboratory research on the effects of physiological excitation on helping behaviour to illustrate my point.

Návaznosti

EE2.3.20.0048, projekt VaV

Název: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

MUNI/A/0780/2013, interní kód MU

Název: Epistemologické problémy výzkumu v religionistice (Akronym: EPROVYR)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Epistemologické problémy výzkumu v religionistice, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

KUNDT, Radek, Paul REDDISH, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Highly Arousing Rituals in Laboratory Settings: Effects of Excitation on Helping Behaviour. In "Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives" International Krakow Study of Religions Symposium, 27–29 October 2014, Krakow, Poland. 2014.

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   language = {eng},
   title = {Highly Arousing Rituals in Laboratory Settings: Effects of Excitation on Helping Behaviour},
   year = {2014}
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KUNDT, Radek, Paul REDDISH, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Highly Arousing Rituals in Laboratory Settings: Effects of Excitation on Helping Behaviour. In \textit{''Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives'' International Krakow Study of Religions Symposium, 27–29 October 2014, Krakow, Poland}. 2014.

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