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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Jakub Cigán, Ph.D., učo 165684. Changed: 14/1/2019 15:30.
Abstract
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.
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EE2.3.20.0048, research and development projectName: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství
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