| BENDIXEN, Theiss, Aaron D LIGHTNER, Coren APICELLA, Quentin ATKINSON, Alexander BOLYANATZ, Emma Elizabeth Ann COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Joseph HENRICH, Eva KLOCOVÁ, Carolyn LESOROGOL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita A MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Caitlyn PLACEK, Montserrat SOLER, Tom VARDY, Jonathan WEIGEL, Aiyana K WILLARD, Dimitris XYGALATAS, Martin LANG and Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI. Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2023, vol. 5, e18, p. 1-15. ISSN 2513-843X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15. |
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@article{2283398,
author = {Bendixen, Theiss and Lightner, Aaron D and Apicella, Coren and Atkinson, Quentin and Bolyanatz, Alexander and Cohen, Emma Elizabeth Ann and Handley, Carla and Henrich, Joseph and Klocová, Eva and Lesorogol, Carolyn and Mathew, Sarah and McNamara, Rita A and Moya, Cristina and Norenzayan, Ara and Placek, Caitlyn and Soler, Montserrat and Vardy, Tom and Weigel, Jonathan and Willard, Aiyana K and Xygalatas, Dimitris and Lang, Martin and Purzycki, Benjamin Grant},
article_number = {e18},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15},
keywords = {Behavioural economics; cognitive anthropology; cultural evolutionary psychology; evolutionary and cognitive science of religion; free-list},
language = {eng},
issn = {2513-843X},
journal = {Evolutionary Human Sciences},
title = {Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/gods-are-watching-and-so-what-moralistic-supernatural-punishment-across-15-cultures/296B21A5369E7D2459E8634DB2DE3F50},
volume = {5},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 2283398
AU - Bendixen, Theiss - Lightner, Aaron D - Apicella, Coren - Atkinson, Quentin - Bolyanatz, Alexander - Cohen, Emma Elizabeth Ann - Handley, Carla - Henrich, Joseph - Klocová, Eva - Lesorogol, Carolyn - Mathew, Sarah - McNamara, Rita A - Moya, Cristina - Norenzayan, Ara - Placek, Caitlyn - Soler, Montserrat - Vardy, Tom - Weigel, Jonathan - Willard, Aiyana K - Xygalatas, Dimitris - Lang, Martin - Purzycki, Benjamin Grant
PY - 2023
TI - Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures
JF - Evolutionary Human Sciences
VL - 5
IS - e18
SP - 1-15
EP - 1-15
PB - Cambridge University Press
SN - 2513843X
KW - Behavioural economics
KW - cognitive anthropology
KW - cultural evolutionary psychology
KW - evolutionary and cognitive science of religion
KW - free-list
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/gods-are-watching-and-so-what-moralistic-supernatural-punishment-across-15-cultures/296B21A5369E7D2459E8634DB2DE3F50
N2 - Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive and monitoring gods that care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to sug- gest that belief in supernatural punishment and monitoring generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect of a deity’s explicitly postulated moral concerns on cooperation remains unclear. Here, we report a pre-registered set of analyses to assess whether perceiving a locally relevant deity as moralistic predicts cooperative play in two permutations of two economic games using data from up to 15 diverse field sites. Across games, results suggest that gods’ moral concerns do not play a direct, cross-culturally reliable role in motivating cooperative behaviour. The study contributes substantially to the current literature by test- ing a central hypothesis in the evolutionary and cognitive science of religion with a large and culturally diverse dataset using behavioural and ethnographically rich methods.
ER -
BENDIXEN, Theiss, Aaron D LIGHTNER, Coren APICELLA, Quentin ATKINSON, Alexander BOLYANATZ, Emma Elizabeth Ann COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Joseph HENRICH, Eva KLOCOVÁ, Carolyn LESOROGOL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita A MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Caitlyn PLACEK, Montserrat SOLER, Tom VARDY, Jonathan WEIGEL, Aiyana K WILLARD, Dimitris XYGALATAS, Martin LANG and Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI. Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. \textit{Evolutionary Human Sciences}. Cambridge University Press, 2023, vol.~5, e18, p.~1-15. ISSN~2513-843X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15.
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