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Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation … religions. The association between religion and prosocial preferences is stronger in more populous societies and weaker in …
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anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
study has been to clarify and examine young people’s attitudes towards Muslims, and the relationships between these … attitudes and a large number of background factors. The material employed in the analysis comprises a representative sample of 9 …
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anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627849
psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. We asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a …
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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … no religion made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate with … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …
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We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...
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Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the...
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