Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members
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Children in an afterschool program who were led to engage in a necklace beading ritual reported more ingroup affiliation than those who engaged in the same group activity without the ritual.
“Children in an afterschool program who were led to engage in a necklace beading ritual reported more ingroup affiliation than those who engaged in the same group activity without the ritual (Wen et al., 2016).”
From The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework (2018) · cites this paper as Wen et al., 2016
Even novel rituals introduced by an experimenter have been shown to promote affiliation.
“Indeed, even novel rituals introduced by an experimenter have been shown to promote affiliation.”
From The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework (2018) · cites this paper as Wen et al., 2016
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- Authors
- Wen, N. J., Herrmann, P. A., & Legare, C. H.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wen, Nicole J.
- Venue
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-01
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 54-60
- ISSN
- 1090-5138 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1680168683
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 42.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Evolution and Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/I005455/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- ritual participation, in-group favoritism, children, group identity, early development
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