Predictive modeling of religiosity, prosociality, and moralizing in 295,000 individuals from European and non-European populations
Abstract Why do moral religions exist? An influential psychological explanation is that religious beliefs in supernatural punishment is cultural group adaptation enhancing prosocial attitudes and thereby large-scale cooperation. An alternative explanation is that religiosity is an individual strateg...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021-01-01
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Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00691-9 |