Gershman, Boris - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 110 (2015) C, pp. 119-144
The evil eye belief is a widespread superstition according to which people can cause harm by a mere envious glance at … prescribed by the evil eye belief, was a proper response to that threat. We hypothesize that in weakly institutionalized … behavior and contributing to the emergence and spread of the evil eye belief as a cultural defense mechanism. Evidence from …