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The cross-cultural ubiquity of costly collective rituals presents a puzzle. Researchers have proposed that collective rituals enhance group solidarity, facilitating these rituals’ spread through intergroup competition. Accordingly, studies indicate that...
Economics increasingly treats preferences, beliefs, and institutions not as primitives but as products of culture — socially transmitted information that evolves over time. We review the exchange between economics and the field of cultural evolution...
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Historical and ethnographic evidence suggests that people around the world use supernatural beliefs to explain misfortune. The cross-cultural prevalence of this pattern may arise from our expectations that norm violations lead to sanctioning. In cases...
Cross-cultural variation in the scale and intensity of human cooperation poses a challenge to classic evolutionary accounts. Confronting popular evolutionary explanations that deemphasize “culture,” researchers have proposed that social norms and...