LANG, Martin and Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI. Punitive gods, morality, and extended prosociality. In FUTURE DIRECTIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF RITUALS, BELIEFS AND RELIGIOUS MINDS. 2018.
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Original name Punitive gods, morality, and extended prosociality
Authors LANG, Martin and Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI.
Edition FUTURE DIRECTIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF RITUALS, BELIEFS AND RELIGIOUS MINDS, 2018.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher Italy
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English religion, evolution, complex system, cooperation, morality
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Michaela Ondrašinová, Ph.D., učo 64955. Changed: 15/1/2019 23:13.
Abstract
The cultural evolution of mechanisms stabilizing large-scale cooperation is a hotly debated topic. We propose that culturally evolved beliefs in moralistic gods interested in human affairs facilitate the extension of moral norms toward distant, unknown co-religionists, and that the effectiveness of such beliefs is confined to religious ingroup, possibly at the expense of outgroups with different supernatural commitments. The current study examined these proposition on a cross-cultural sample of 2,228 participants comprising 15 societies with various group size, mode of subsistence, and supernatural beliefs. Using Random Allocation Games (RAGs) and Dictator Games (DGs) where participants allocated money between various cup-dyads, we show that ratings of moralistic gods as omniscient and punitive stably predict larger allocations to cups belonging to geographically distant co-religionists.
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