The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors
In a great variety of cultures oaths, ordeals, or lie detectors are used to adjudicate in trials, even though they do not reliably discern liars from truth tellers. I suggest that these practices owe their cultural success to the triggering of cognitive mechanisms that make them more culturally attr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 20, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 159-187 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Criminal prosecution
/ Lie
/ Truth
/ Oath
/ Torture
/ Lie detectors and detection
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion XA Law ZC Politics in general ZD Psychology |
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Immanent justice
B lie detectors B Organizational commitment B ordeals B cultural attraction theory B Oaths |
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