Supernatural monitoring and sanctioning in community-based resource management

Cooperation in human societies is difficult to sustain if mechanisms are not in place to monitor behavior and sanction transgressions. Unfortunately, these mechanisms constitute second-order public goods that are vulnerable to freeriding. Religion has been proposed to solve this problem by shifting...

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Authors: Hartberg, Yasha (Author) ; Cox, Michael (Author) ; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2016
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 95-111
Further subjects:B Cooperation
B supernatural sanctioning
B community-based resource management
B Prosociality
B supernatural monitoring
B Evolution
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