My way or the highway
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | It seems reasonable that sharing a functional goal enhances cooperation within the group that tries to achieve it. But does sharing an arbitrary way of doing things (no matter how goal demoted these sub-actions are) increase in-group prosociality? And how does it influence attitudes towards out-groups? I am interested in testing what aspects of collective ritualised actions may lead to increased prosociality/perceived entitativity, if any. In particular I focus on prolonged effects of collectively shared ritualised ways of achieving a goal (however arbitrary those actions are in respect to the desired goal) on in-group prosociality and out-group hostility. |
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