{"title":"Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition","authors":"Mark Stanford","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186935","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115776988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications","authors":"H. Whitehouse","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126875672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal","authors":"S. Atran","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130974322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy","authors":"Kerstin Stucky, Andy Gardner","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2215854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2215854","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen renewed interest in the role of religious systems as drivers of the evolution of cooperation in human societies. One suggestion is that a cultural tradition of ancestor worship might have evolved as a “ descendant-leaving strategy ” of ancestors by encouraging increased altruism particularly between distant kin. Speci fi cally, Coe and others have suggested a mechanism of cultural transmission exploiting social learning biases, whereby ancestors have been able to establish parental manipulation of kin recognition and perceived relatedness as a traditional behavior, leading to increased altruism among co-descendants and thereby maximizing the ancestor ’ s long-term inclusive fi tness. Here, we develop a demographically explicit model in order to quantify the resulting increase in altruism and concomitant “ ancestor-descendant con fl ict ” , and to determine the evolutionary feasibility of religiously motivated cultural norms that promote altruism among co-descendants. Our analysis reveals that such norms could indeed drive an overall increase in altruism with potential for ancestor-descendant con fl ict, particularly in low-dispersal settings. Moreover, we fi nd that natural selection can favor traditions encouraging increased altruism towards co-descendants under a range of conditions, with the inclusive-fi tness costs of enacting an inappropriately high level of altruism being o ff set by inclusive-fi tness bene fi ts derived from the cultural tradition facilitating kin recognition.","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124124575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses","authors":"E. Slingerland, M. Monroe, Michael Muthukrishna","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2200825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2200825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122647452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theiss Bendixen, C. Apicella, Q. Atkinson, E. Cohen, J. Henrich, R. McNamara, A. Norenzayan, A. Willard, D. Xygalatas, B. Purzycki
{"title":"Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies","authors":"Theiss Bendixen, C. Apicella, Q. Atkinson, E. Cohen, J. Henrich, R. McNamara, A. Norenzayan, A. Willard, D. Xygalatas, B. Purzycki","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178487","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129450467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas","authors":"J. Balch","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130643696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First steps on a path to scientific maturity","authors":"Michael Vlerick","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126962264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns","authors":"Ze Hong","doi":"10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2023.2178490","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":283532,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Brain & Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133447501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}