Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions

Cognition

Volumn 145, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-29

  Kapitány, Rohan ^a   Nielsen, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Normativity; Religion; Ritual; Ritual cognition; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RITUAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; STANDING; VIDEORECORDING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939635458     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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