naa a22 4500 510774075 CHVBK 20180411083224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? [Elektronische Daten] An Experimental Field Study Comparing Nine Ritual Types [Ronald Fischer, Rohan Callander, Paul Reddish, Joseph Bulbulia] Collective rituals have long puzzled anthropologists, yet little is known about how rituals affect participants. Our study investigated the effects of nine naturally occurring rituals on prosociality. We operationalized prosociality as (1) attitudes about fellow ritual participants and (2) decisions in a public goods game. The nine rituals varied in levels of synchrony and levels of sacred attribution. We found that rituals with synchronous body movements were more likely to enhance prosocial attitudes. We also found that rituals judged to be sacred were associated with the largest contributions in the public goods game. Path analysis favored a model in which sacred values mediate the effects of synchronous movements on prosocial behaviors. Our analysis offers the first quantitative evidence for the long-standing anthropological conjecture that rituals orchestrate body motions and sacred values to support prosociality. Our analysis, moreover, adds precision to this old conjecture with evidence of a specific mechanism: ritual synchrony increases perceptions of oneness with others, which increases sacred values to intensify prosocial behaviors. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Cooperation nationallicence Entitativity nationallicence Evolution nationallicence Religion nationallicence Ritual nationallicence Sacred values nationallicence Fischer Ronald School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand aut Callander Rohan School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand aut Reddish Paul LEVYNA: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic aut Bulbulia Joseph Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, 6410, Wellington, New Zealand aut Human Nature Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/2(2013-06-01), 115-125 1045-6767 24:2<115 2013 24 12110 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9167-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fischer Ronald School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Callander Rohan School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reddish Paul LEVYNA: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bulbulia Joseph Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, 6410, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Nature Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/2(2013-06-01), 115-125 1045-6767 24:2<115 2013 24 12110 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer