Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions

Religion, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-55

  Schjoedt, Uffe ^a   Sørensen, Jesper ^a   Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard ^a   Xygalatas, Dimitris ^a   Mitkidis, Panagiotis ^a   Bulbulia, Joseph ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Authority; Emotion regulation; Predictive coding; Resource depletion; Ritualized behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879448499     PISSN: 2153599X     EISSN: 21535981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2012.736714     Document Type: Article

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