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dc.contributor.author | Bendixen, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lightner, AD | - |
dc.contributor.author | Apicella, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Atkinson, Q | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bolyanatz, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cohen, E | - |
dc.contributor.author | Handley, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Henrich, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kundtova Klocova, E | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lesorogol, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mathew, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mcnamara, RA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Moya, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Norenzayan, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Placek, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Soler, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Vardy, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Weigel, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Willard, AK | - |
dc.contributor.author | Xygalatas, D | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lang, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Purzycki, BG | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-28T11:43:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-28T11:43:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05-12 | - |
dc.identifier | ORCID iDs: Theiss Bendixen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5729-1281; Coren Apicella https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-6998; Quentin Atkinson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8499-7535; Emma Cohen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5465-3440; Carla Handley https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-304X; Joseph Henrich https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-0065; Eva Kundtová Klocová https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6184-2381; Carolyn Lesorogol https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8946-0289; Sarah Mathew https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3614-3276; Rita A. McNamara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8530-768X; Cristina Moya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7100-9115; Caitlyn Placek https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5315-5431; Montserrat Soler https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1193-8710; Aiyana K. Willard https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9224-7534; Dimitris Xygalatas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1561-9327; Martin Lang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2231-1059; Benjamin Grant Purzycki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9595-7360. | - |
dc.identifier | e18 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Bendixen, T. et al. (2023) 'Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures', Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, e18, pp. 1 - 15. doi: 10.1017/ehs.2023.15. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/26741 | - |
dc.description | Research transparency and reproducibility: Pre-registration materials, supplementary analyses and plots, as well as data and analysis scripts for this study are openly available at: https://github.com/tbendixen/moral-freelist-econ . | en_US |
dc.description | Supplementary material: Supplemental materials are available at https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15 . | - |
dc.description.abstract | Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. 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 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 testing a central hypothesis in the evolutionary and cognitive science of religion with a large and culturally diverse dataset using behavioural and ethnographically rich methods. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | ‘The Emergence of Prosocial Religions’ from the John Templeton Foundation, and the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium, funded by a generous partnership grant (895-2011-1009) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; CH and SM were funded by the John Templeton Foundation grant no. 48952; TB, ADL and BGP acknowledge funding from Aarhus University Research Foundation. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1 - 15 | - |
dc.format.medium | Electronic | - |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
dc.subject | behavioural economics | en_US |
dc.subject | cognitive anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject | cultural evolutionary psychology | en_US |
dc.subject | evolutionary and cognitive science of religion | en_US |
dc.subject | free-list | en_US |
dc.title | Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Evolutionary Human Sciences | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
pubs.volume | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2513-843X | - |
dc.rights.holder | The Author(s) | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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