Religious solidarity: The hand grenade experiment

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 295-320

  Bulbulia, Joseph ^a   Mahoney, Andrew ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Altruism; God; Group selection; Morality; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849210400     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853708X358191     Document Type: Article

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