Extreme rituals in the lab: Effect of excitation on helping
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Extreme rituals in the lab: Effect of excitation on helping behaviour

KUNDT, Radek

Basic information

Original name

Extreme rituals in the lab: Effect of excitation on helping behaviour

Authors

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

Edition

Principles of Cognitive Psychology in Practice 2015 (APCPP 2015), Brno, 21.-22.5.2015, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00084435

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

ritual; arousal; controlled experiment; prosociality; helping behaviour

Abstract

V originále

Paper presents the results of a recent controlled experiment which examined the differential effects of ritual arousal on social behaviour. Previous research has examined specific aspects commonly found in collective rituals that might modulate group attitudes and behaviours (i.e., inter-personal motor synchrony: Valdesolo & DeSteno, 2011; Reddish et al., 2013; Wiltermuth, 2012). We propose that a common mechanism related to physiological arousal might explain these contrasting effects. A ritual task was used designed to induce autonomic arousal stripped of any social, semantic, or emotional associations (high and low intensity body movements involving repetition, redundancy, and no obvious end-goal), followed by the administration of either prosocial or antisocial video game primes and finally by a helping task to examine the effects of individual ritual arousal and its interaction with contextual cues on ritual prosociality. This study makes a novel conceptual contribution to the literature on social functions of human rituals investigating the link between this deep-rooted behavioural propensity of our species and ingroup cooperation/cohesion as well as outgroup competition/hostility. It is the first study assessing in laboratory conditions and through behavioural measures in one design diametrically opposite effects of the ritual arousal on social behaviour depending on the prime it is coupled with.

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

KUNDT, Radek. Extreme rituals in the lab: Effect of excitation on helping behaviour. In Principles of Cognitive Psychology in Practice 2015 (APCPP 2015), Brno, 21.-22.5.2015. 2015.

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KUNDT, Radek. Extreme rituals in the lab: Effect of excitation on helping behaviour. In \textit{Principles of Cognitive Psychology in Practice 2015 (APCPP 2015), Brno, 21.-22.5.2015}. 2015.

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