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Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim
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“For example, performing interpersonal rituals can improve closeness in groups even when the group members do not reveal any explicit need for connection or belonging (Páez, Basabe, Ubillos, & González-Castro, 2007;Ruffle & Sosis, 2007;Sosis & Ruffle, 2003;Wen, Herrmann, & Legare, 2016).”
From The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework (2018) · cites this paper as Sosis & Ruffle, 2003
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“and kibbutz members who more frequently engaged in communal religious rituals were more cooperative in a public goods game with other kibbutz members (Ruffle & Sosis, 2007;Sosis & Ruffle, 2003).”
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“Religious groups with costly religious rituals show remarkably higher levels of cooperation and last vastly longer than secular groups (Sosis and Ruffle 2003).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sosis, R., & Ruffle, B. J.
- Affiliations
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
- Venue
- Current Anthropology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2003-12
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 713-722
- ISSN
- 0011-3204 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5382
- OpenAlex
- W2095872779
- Cited by
- 389
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 29.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Connecticut
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Jewish Identity and Society
- Keywords
- religious rituals, cooperation, kibbutz, collective ritual, social cohesion, Israeli society
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