Bringing ritual to mind : psychological foundations of cultural forms

By Robert N. McCauley, E. T. Lawson. 2002

371 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Cultural Studies

1. A. Cimino
2. Richard Sosis
3. Pascal Boyer
4. W. Bruce Croft
5. Alex Mesoudi
6. S. Shennan

In Social Psychology

1. Benjamin G. Purzycki
2. Quentin D. Atkinson
3. Richard Sosis
4. A. Cimino
5. Harvey Whitehouse
6. P. Liénard
7. Pascal Boyer
8. Joseph A. Bulbulia

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Benjamin G. Purzycki
2. Richard Sosis
3. Quentin D. Atkinson
4. A. Cimino
5. P. Liénard
6. Harvey Whitehouse
7. Pascal Boyer
8. Joseph Henrich

Citations in the corpus

• Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds (2011, background): “In animistic traditions, there are certainly supernatural agents, but not necessarily “culturally postulated superhuman agents” (McCauley & Lawson 2002, p. 8; emphasis added).”
• The Evolution of Hazing: Motivational Mechanisms and the Abuse of Newcomers (2011, background): “While the macro theories do not exhaust the actual or possible theories of hazing, they are the most common and most generalizable frameworks (for other applicable theories, see Bettelheim, 1954; McCauley and Lawson, 2002; Whitehouse, 2004; Wilson, 2008).”
• Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs (2007, background): “The emotional impact of these rites, many of which occur during critical developmental stages, has profound long-term effects on memory and is motivationally powerful (Alcorta & Sosis, 2005; McCauley & Lawson, 2002; Whitehouse, 2000).”
• The cultural morphospace of ritual form ☆: Examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally (2011, background): “…attention in the last decade from historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and cognitive scientists (Martin & Whitehouse, 2005; McCauley, 2001; McCauley & Lawson, 2002; McCauley & Whitehouse, 2005; Whitehouse & Martin, 2004; Whitehouse & McCauley, 2005) and there is much to support it in the…”
• Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior (2006, background): “Turning to individual differences, a model that derives cultural transmission from individual cognitive effects must address how these effects are spread among the participants (McCauley and Lawson 2002).”