Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures.

Behavioural economics cognitive anthropology cultural evolutionary psychology evolutionary and cognitive science of religion free-list

Journal

Evolutionary human sciences
ISSN: 2513-843X
Titre abrégé: Evol Hum Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101773423

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2023
Historique:
received: 21 02 2023
revised: 28 04 2023
accepted: 01 05 2023
medline: 17 8 2023
pubmed: 17 8 2023
entrez: 17 8 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

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 suggest that belief in supernatural punishment and monitoring generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect of a deity's

Identifiants

pubmed: 37587943
doi: 10.1017/ehs.2023.15
pii: S2513843X23000154
pmc: PMC10426076
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

e18

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2023.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

No conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Theiss Bendixen (T)

Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Aaron D Lightner (AD)

Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Coren Apicella (C)

Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Quentin Atkinson (Q)

Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

Alexander Bolyanatz (A)

College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA.

Emma Cohen (E)

Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Carla Handley (C)

Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Joseph Henrich (J)

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Eva Kundtová Klocová (EK)

LEVYNA, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Carolyn Lesorogol (C)

Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Sarah Mathew (S)

Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Rita A McNamara (RA)

School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

Cristina Moya (C)

Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.

Ara Norenzayan (A)

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Caitlyn Placek (C)

Department of Anthropology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA.

Montserrat Soler (M)

Ob/Gyn and Women's Health Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Tom Vardy (T)

Department of International Development, London School of Economics, London, UK.

Jonathan Weigel (J)

Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.

Dimitris Xygalatas (D)

Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

Martin Lang (M)

LEVYNA, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

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