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ArticleEvolutionary human sciences2023

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures.

Theiss Bendixen, Aaron D Lightner, Coren Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Alexander Bolyanatz, Emma Cohen, Carla Handley, Joseph Henrich, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Carolyn Lesorogol and 12 more

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Article in Evolutionary human sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Theiss BendixenAarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5729-1281
Aaron D LightnerAarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Coren ApicellaDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9661-6998
Quentin AtkinsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8499-7535
Alexander BolyanatzCollege of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA.
Emma CohenWadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5465-3440
Carla HandleyArizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-304X
Joseph HenrichDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-0065
Eva Kundtová KlocováLEVYNA, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6184-2381
Carolyn LesorogolWashington University in St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8946-0289
Sarah MathewArizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3614-3276
Rita A McNamaraSchool of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8530-768X
Cristina MoyaDepartment of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7100-9115
Ara NorenzayanDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Caitlyn PlacekDepartment of Anthropology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5315-5431
Montserrat SolerOb/Gyn and Women's Health Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1193-8710
Tom VardyDepartment of International Development, London School of Economics, London, UK.
Jonathan WeigelHaas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Aiyana K WillardBrunel University, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9224-7534
Dimitris XygalatasDepartment of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1561-9327
Martin LangLEVYNA, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2231-1059
Benjamin Grant PurzyckiAarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9595-7360

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychological and cultural evolutionary accounts of human sociality propose that beliefs in punitive and monitoring gods that care about moral norms facilitate cooperation. While there is some evidence to suggest that belief in supernatural punishment and monitoring generally induce cooperative behaviour, the effect of a deity's

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Behavioural economicscognitive anthropologycultural evolutionary psychologyevolutionary and cognitive science of religionfree-list

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