Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment

By Richard Sosis. 2005

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan* (2015, unknown): “…drink, as well as smoking and sexual activities, between dawn and sunset during the entire month.6 Ramadan fasting entails obvious physiological consequences because of the constraints it places on the ingestion of food and liquids, and these have been extensively studied in the medical literature.”
Beyond Beliefs: Religions Bind Individuals Into Moral Communities (2010, unknown): “How could such a person prosper and leave more surviving offspring than his or her less religiously minded neighbor? There has been some speculation that religious behavior is a kind of costly signaling device (Atran & Henrich, 2009; Sosis, 2005) that helps individuals find other trustworthy individ”
Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs (2007, background): “Sosis (2005, 2006) has argued that religious behaviors meet these conditions: (1) the intensity of religious beliefs varies within communities and this variance is unobservable; (2) individuals benefit from accurate information about this variance because intensity of belief is related to one’s…”
Exploring the atheist personality: well-being, awe, and magical thinking in atheists, Buddhists, and Christians (2011, background): “…social-science findings showing that research participants will behave in a more altruistic manner when religious themes have been brought up (Hanito & Inaba, 2006; Shariff & Norenzayan, 2007; Sosis, 2005), but there have been some contrary findings as well (Beit-Hallahmi & Argyle, 1997).”
Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion. (2006, methodology): “What is particularly interesting about this whole system is that religious communities do not rely exclusively on these internalization strategies (Sosis 2005).”
Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds (2011, background): “There is an ever-growing literature on the signaling value of religious behaviors (Alcorta & Sosis 2005; Bulbulia 2004; 2009; Henrich 2009; Sosis 2005; Sosis & Alcorta 2003; Sosis & Bressler 2003).”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “While religious belief systems provide a metaphorical model of this social framework (Durkheim, 1915/1969), religious ritual imbues this model and its representational symbols with emotional significance and motivational force (Alcorta & Sosis, 2005).”
Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical review (2011, background): “Strong empirical correlations between cohesion of cooperating groups and demanding religious practices lend support to this proposal; moreover, correlations between group solidarity and costly behaviors are much weaker or non-existent in secular communities (Sosis & Alcorta, 2003 ; Sosis, 2005 ; R”
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017, background): “Others emphasize the functional effects of religious systems (Alcorta & Sosis, 2005; Purzycki, Haque, & Sosis, 2014; Sosis, 2009) as adaptive responses to problems of trust and cooperation (Purzycki & Arakchaa, 2013; Soler, 2012; Sosis, 2005; Sosis & Bressler, 2003; Sosis & Ruffle, 2003; Tan & Vogel”
The Travelling Fan: Understanding the Mechanisms of Sport Fan Consumption in a Sport Tourism Setting (2007, result): “The powerful allegiance signalling elicited by sport is similar to that demonstrated in religion (Sosis, 2000, 2004, 2005).”