The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion: credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution

By Joseph Henrich. 2009

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Social Functions of Group Rituals (2016, background): “privilege behavioral commitment over verbal commitment (Henrich, 2009).”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, neutral): “…problems by (1) permitting the learning of strategies that punish nonprosocial behavior (Henrich and Boyd 2001; Boyd and Richerson 1992), or (2) linking non-prosocial behavior to players’ behavior in another type of interaction (Gintis et al. 2001; Panchanathan and Boyd 2004; Henrich 2009).”
Discerning devotion: Testing the signaling theory of religion (2017, background): “Multimodal and Multiplex Signals 507 The signaling theory of religion generally contends that individuals signal 508 their adherence to cooperative norms and their commitment to the tenets of 509 the religious community through costly and therefore honest ritual acts (Al510 corta and Sosis, 2005; At”
Charisma as signal: An evolutionary perspective on charismatic leadership (2017, background): “…when the former criterion is met – that is, when a cue has been selected by evolution because it increases the survival and reproductive chances of both senders (aspiring leaders) and receivers (followers) – that a cue can properly be described as a signal (Henrich, 2009; Scott-Phillips, 2008).”
Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, background): “Rituals may also provide opportunities to present oneself and be perceived by others as worthy of trust and cooperation (Sosis & Alcorta, 2003) or to enhance followers’ commitment to the group’s ideology and in-group cooperation (Henrich, 2009).”
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017, background): “Cultural evolution may have harnessed and exploited evolved psychological systems and through time assembled specific configurations of explicit supernatural agent concepts and ritual forms that induce greater cooperation, trust, and solidarity within expanding groups (Atran & Henrich, 2010; Bulbuli”
Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members☆ (2016, background): “…a particular way) (Cosmides & Tooby, 2013), (b) demonstrating commitment to the group (e.g., more costly rituals signal commitment to group values) (Henrich, 2009; McElreath, Boyd, & Richerson, 2003), (c) facilitating cooperation with their coalition (e.g. rituals signal group commitment and…”
THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011, background): “Given both the imperfection of cultural transmission and the threat of manipulation from unscrupulous sources (Henrich 2009), a degree of incredulity is warranted when evaluating new sources and types of cultural information.”
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010, background): “When the aforementioned cognitive mechanisms for weighting costly displays are included as part of cultural learning, belief–action combinations yield many different stable states, including those in which the actions are individually costly,555 and potentially cooperative (Henrich 2009).”
Testing theories of secularization and religious belief in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (2017, background): “Making sacrifices for one's religion convinces other people that one holds strong beliefs about that religion and increased the likelihood that others adopt and maintain those beliefs (Henrich, 2009; Lanman, 2012).”
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011, background): “For example, the tendency to imitate the prestigious, or those making credibilityenhancing displays of commitment, can lead to a “runaway” process analogous to sexual selection (10), and this may explain the cultural evolution of maladaptive cultural systems in which people risk life and limb to sum”
Social learning across the life cycle: cultural knowledge acquisition for honey collection among the Jenu Kuruba, India ☆ (2012, background): “They average across the development of adult beliefs with probability statements (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman, 1981; Henrich, 2009; McElreath, 2004).”