Ritual well-being: toward a social signaling model of religion and mental health

Religion is positively correlated with subjective well-being across a variety of contexts, but convincing causal models are lacking. Some researchers have suggested that religion may boost self-control, and thus well-being, by requiring effortful rituals. This article proposes that costly signaling...

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Main Author: Wood, Connor (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 223-243
Further subjects:B Subjective well-being
B Self-control
B religion and self-control
B religion and mental health
B strength model
B Ritual
B social signaling
B costly signaling
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