Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China: micro-modeling the cultural evolution of gods and morality in textual corpora

A major source of attention paid to high gods in the fields of cultural evolution and cognitive science is the social effects of belief in high gods. Belief in high gods is both hypothesized to catalyze a cognitive punishment-avoidance mechanism at the level of individual minds, and a group cultural...

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Published in:Religion, brain & behavior
Authors: Nichols, Ryan (Author) ; Slingerland, Edward G. 1968- (Author) ; Kirby, Peter (Author) ; Logan, Carson (Author) ; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2021]
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-64
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Supernatural being / Pro-social behavior / Supreme Being / Corpus (Linguistics) / Data mining
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
KBM Asia
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Cultural Evolution
B China
B Gods
B corpus linguistics
B cognitive science of religion
B Data mining
B Ancestors
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)