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Divergent modes of ritual, social cohesion, prosociality, and conflict.
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| Coordinator |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/ritual-modes-divergent-modes-of-ritual-social-cohesion-prosociality-and-conflict |
| Total cost | 2˙499˙980 € |
| EC max contribution | 2˙499˙980 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2015-AdG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-ADG |
| Starting year | 2016 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-10-01 to 2021-09-30 |
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| 1 | THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | UK (OXFORD) | coordinator | 2˙459˙603.00 |
| 2 | THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION | UK (HATFIELD) | participant | 40˙376.00 |
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Project objective
The project aims to establish an authoritative scientific framework for understanding the relationship between group ritual, social cohesion, and pro-group behaviour. Rituals have shaped human societies for millennia, but the exact social consequences of rituals are poorly understood. The proposed research will identify the fundamental components of rituals worldwide and chart their effects on patterns of group alignment and action. Doing so will have a lasting impact on basic understandings of the nature, causes, and consequences of ritual dynamics as well as open up exciting new avenues of inquiry that bridge the humanities and social sciences.
It is proposed that within numerous cultures and group types, collective rituals come in two main forms with distinct consequences: 1) affectively-intense, rarely-enacted rituals bond group members tightly and motivate extreme self-sacrifice; 2) frequently repeated rituals create allegiance to broad collectives and motivate ingroup bias. Using this model as a starting point, the proposed research programme will seek to achieve three tightly linked objectives. Objective 1 will examine psychological mechanisms underlying rituals’ effects on group cohesion and behaviour in ten nations. Objective 2 will focus on the ritual dynamics of special populations exposed to group-related violence (e.g., war veterans, ex-convicts, war-torn communities). Objective 3 will examine the functions of ritual and cohesion in cultural group selection. Using new techniques, we will quantitatively code and analyse qualitative data on ritual and cohesion in large historical databases from hundreds of groups over the past 12,000 years. Overall, these research objectives aim to provide insights into key questions (e.g., what are the fundamental building blocks of group rituals?), understudied groups (e.g., revolutionary combatants), and unresolved debates in many fields (e.g., what motivates self-sacrifice?).
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |
Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Alexandra Vázquez, Wallisen Tadashi Hattori, Harvey Whitehouse Winning at any cost: Identity fusion, group essence, and maximizing ingroup advantage published pages: 500-516, ISSN: 1529-8868, DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2018.1452788 |
Self and Identity 17/5 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2018 |
Philip S. Cho, Nicolas Escoffier, Yinan Mao, April Ching, Christopher Green, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse Groups and Emotional Arousal Mediate Neural Synchrony and Perceived Ritual Efficacy published pages: , ISSN: 1664-1078, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02071 |
Frontiers in Psychology 9 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2018 |
Michael D. Buhrmester, Dawn Burnham, Dominic D. P. Johnson, Oliver S. Curry, David W. Macdonald, Harvey Whitehouse How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral published pages: , ISSN: 2296-701X, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00054 |
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2018 |
Daniel Austin Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Harvey Whitehouse, Peter Turchin A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age†Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence published pages: 596-626, ISSN: 0003-1224, DOI: 10.1177/0003122418772567 |
American Sociological Review 83/3 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2018 |
Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Kevin Feeney, Daniel Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Stephanie Grohmann, Patrick Savage, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Edward Turner, Agathe Dupeyron, Enrico Cioni, Jenny Reddish, Jill Levine, Greine Jordan, Eva Brandl, Alice Williams, Rudolf Cesaretti, Marta Krueger, Alessandro Ceccarelli, Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm, Po-Ju Tuan, Peter Peregrine, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Nikolay Kradin, Andrey Korotayev, Alessio Palmisano, David Baker, Julye Bidmead, Peter Bol, David Christian, Connie Cook, Alan Covey, Gary Feinman, Ãrni DanÃel JúlÃusson, Axel Kristinsson, John Miksic, Ruth Mostern, Cameron Petrie, Peter Rudiak-Gould, Barend ter Haar, Vesna Wallace, Victor Mair, Liye Xie, John Baines, Elizabeth Bridges, Joseph Manning, Bruce Lockhart, Amy Bogaard, Charles Spencer Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization published pages: E144-E151, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708800115 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115/2 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2017 |
Martha Newson Football, fan violence, and identity fusion published pages: 101269021773129, ISSN: 1012-6902, DOI: 10.1177/1012690217731293 |
International Review for the Sociology of Sport | 2019-06-13 |
| 2019 |
Oliver Scott Curry, Daniel Austin Mullins, Harvey Whitehouse Is It Good to Cooperate? Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies published pages: 47-69, ISSN: 0011-3204, DOI: 10.1086/701478 |
Current Anthropology 60/1 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2018 |
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Jonathan Jong, David Bilkey, Harvey Whitehouse, Stefanie Zollmann, Craig McNaughton, Jamin Halberstadt Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18023-4 |
Scientific Reports 8/1 | 2019-06-13 |
| 2018 |
Harvey Whitehouse Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice published pages: 1-64, ISSN: 0140-525X, DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000249 |
Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2019-06-13 |
| 2019 |
Paul Reddish, Eddie M. W. Tong, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency published pages: 1-23, ISSN: 1529-8868, DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1604427 |
Self and Identity | 2019-06-06 |
| 2019 |
Christopher M. Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Ryan McKay, Harvey Whitehouse Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion and costly pro-group actions published pages: 461-481, ISSN: 0046-2772, DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2514 |
European Journal of Social Psychology 49/3 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2019 |
Rohan Kapitány, Christopher Kavanagh, Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Harvey Whitehouse Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory published pages: 1-31, ISSN: 1529-8868, DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1578686 |
Self and Identity | 2019-06-06 |
| 2018 |
R. Kapitány, C. Kavanagh, H. Whitehouse, M. Nielsen Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences published pages: 46-57, ISSN: 0010-0277, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.005 |
Cognition 181 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2018 |
Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Andrey Korotayev, Pieter Francois, Daniel Hoyer, Peter Peregrine, Gary Feinman, Charles Spencer, Nikolay Kradin, Thomas E. Currie Evolutionary Pathways to Statehood: Old Theories and New Data published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/h7tr6 |
SocArXiv Papers | 2019-06-06 |
| 2017 |
J. Brewer, M. Gelfand, J. C. Jackson, I. F. MacDonald, P. N. Peregrine, P. J. Richerson, P. Turchin, H. Whitehouse, D. S. Wilson Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution published pages: 70, ISSN: 2397-334X, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0070 |
Nature Ecology & Evolution 1/3 | 2019-05-24 |
| 2018 |
Harvey Whitehouse Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice published pages: , ISSN: 0140-525X, DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x1800208x |
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2017 |
J. Brewer, M. Gelfand, J. C. Jackson, I. F. MacDonald, P. N. Peregrine, P. J. Richerson, P. Turchin, H. Whitehouse, D. S. Wilson Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution published pages: 70, ISSN: 2397-334X, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0070 |
Nature Ecology & Evolution 1/3 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2019 |
Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Thomas E. Currie, Kevin C. Feeney, Enrico Cioni, Rosalind Purcell, Robert M. Ross, Jennifer Larson, John Baines, Barend ter Haar, Alan Covey, Peter Turchin Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history published pages: 226-229, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1043-4 |
Nature 568/7751 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2019 |
Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Thomas E. Currie, Kevin C. Feeney, Enrico Cioni, Rosalind Purcell, Robert M. Ross, Jennifer Larson, John Baines, Barend ter Haar, Alan Covey, Peter Turchin Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history published pages: 226-229, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1043-4 |
Nature 568/7751 | 2019-05-24 |
| 2018 |
Martha Newson, Tiago Bortolini, Michael Buhrmester, Silvio Ricardo da Silva, Jefferson Nicássio Queiroga da Aquino, Harvey Whitehouse Brazil\'s football warriors: Social bonding and inter-group violence published pages: 675-683, ISSN: 1090-5138, DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.010 |
Evolution and Human Behavior 39/6 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2018 |
Michael Gantley, Harvey Whitehouse, Amy Bogaard Material Correlates Analysis (MCA) published pages: 328-341, ISSN: 2326-3768, DOI: 10.1017/aap.2018.9 |
Advances in Archaeological Practice 6/4 | 2019-06-06 |
| 2017 |
Harvey Whitehouse, Jonathan Jong, Michael D. Buhrmester, Ãngel Gómez, Brock Bastian, Christopher M. Kavanagh, Martha Newson, Miriam Matthews, Jonathan A. Lanman, Ryan McKay, Sergey Gavrilets The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences published pages: 44292, ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/srep44292 |
Scientific Reports 7 | 2019-06-13 |
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