By Reverence, Not Fear: Prestige, Religion, and Autonomic Regulation in the Evolution of Cooperation

Recent evolutionary theories of religions emphasize their function as mechanisms for increasing prosociality. In particular, they claim that fear of supernatural punishment can be adaptive when it can compensate for humans’ inability to monitor behavior and mete out punishment in large groups, as we...

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Main Authors: Hillary L. Lenfesty, Thomas J. H. Morgan
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Acceso en liña:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02750/full