Experimental study of prosocial behavior in cross-religious
settings on Mauritius

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Experimental study of prosocial behavior in cross-religious settings on Mauritius

CIGÁN, Jakub, Silvie KOTHEROVÁ, Radek KUNDT, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Peter MAŇO et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Experimental study of prosocial behavior in cross-religious settings on Mauritius

Authors

CIGÁN, Jakub (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Silvie KOTHEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Radek KUNDT (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Peter MAŇO (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Panagiotis MITKIDIS (300 Greece), Sebastian Ernst WALLOT (276 Germany), Martin KANOVSKÝ (703 Slovakia) and Dimitrios XYGALATAS (300 Greece, belonging to the institution)

Edition

XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Erfurt, 23-29 August 2015, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00090120

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

experiment; náboženství; antropologie; ekonomické hry; metodologie; prosocialita

Keywords in English

experiment; religion; anthropology; economic games; methodology; prosociality

Abstract

V originále

Experimental methods have started to be gradually adopted and used mostly by anthropologists of religion in the last decades along with the traditional ones. In the paper I will not just discuss strengths and limits of experimental methods in the field theoretically, but by an example of the experimental research project conducted on Mauritius I will show benefits and challenges of field experimenting in detail. In the field experimental project an economic game paradigm was used to explore behavior of religious people in various religious and non-religious environments. While there is an evidence supporting that in-group religious settings increases parochial prosocial behavior in comparison to non-religious one, the prosocial behavior in other´s people religious settings has been mostly unexplored. By discussing project´s methods and its surprising results the paper aims to show how experimental methods and anthropology/religious studies can be enriched by each other.

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

CIGÁN, Jakub, Silvie KOTHEROVÁ, Radek KUNDT, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Peter MAŇO, Panagiotis MITKIDIS, Sebastian Ernst WALLOT, Martin KANOVSKÝ and Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Experimental study of prosocial behavior in cross-religious settings on Mauritius. In XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Erfurt, 23-29 August 2015. 2015.

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   booktitle = {XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Erfurt, 23-29 August 2015},
   keywords = {experiment; religion; anthropology; economic games; methodology; prosociality},
   language = {eng},
   title = {Experimental study of prosocial behavior in cross-religious settings on Mauritius},
   year = {2015}
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CIGÁN, Jakub, Silvie KOTHEROVÁ, Radek KUNDT, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Peter MAŇO, Panagiotis MITKIDIS, Sebastian Ernst WALLOT, Martin KANOVSKÝ and Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Experimental study of prosocial behavior in cross-religious settings on Mauritius. In \textit{XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Erfurt, 23-29 August 2015}. 2015.

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