William Buckner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 631161 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William Buckner |
| NOMBRES | William |
| APELLIDO | Buckner |
| FIRMA | BUCKNER W |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9786-2384 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sacrifice, Secrecy, and Sexual Conflict in Small-Scale Religions
Purzycki and Sosis provide a functionalist account of religion, viewing it as an evolved system designed to help individuals and groups navigate the recurrent social dilemmas that humans face across diverse socioecological contexts. I discuss their framework in relation to ethnographic case studies involving human sacrifice, ritual secrecy, and sexual conflict in small-scale societies. I argue that, while there is a great deal in the ethno-histor…
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history. We took data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database and coded ethnographic documents from a sample of 131 largely non-industrial societies. We recorded whe…
Aggressive Mimicry and the Evolution of the Human Cognitive Niche
The evolutionary origins of deception and its functional role in our species is a major focus of research in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution, often packaged under either the Social Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes the role that the evolution of our social systems may have played in scaffolding our cognitive traits, and the Foraging Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes how changes in the human …
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena
A Deceptive Curing Practice in Hunter–Gatherer Societies
The claim of possessing supernatural abilities is a commonly reported phenomenon across human societies. To bolster the credibility of such claims, performers may make use of illusions and sleight of hand to give the appearance of impressive powers. One common trick found among culturally independent hunter–gatherers on every continent they inhabit involves a healer ostensibly extracting from a sick person an object, such as a pebble or insect, t…
Disguises and the Origins of Clothing
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena
Disguises and the Origins of Clothing
Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history. We took data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database and coded ethnographic documents from a sample of 131 largely non-industrial societies. We recorded whe…
A Deceptive Curing Practice in Hunter–Gatherer Societies
The claim of possessing supernatural abilities is a commonly reported phenomenon across human societies. To bolster the credibility of such claims, performers may make use of illusions and sleight of hand to give the appearance of impressive powers. One common trick found among culturally independent hunter–gatherers on every continent they inhabit involves a healer ostensibly extracting from a sick person an object, such as a pebble or insect, t…
Disguises and the Origins of Clothing
A Deceptive Curing Practice in Hunter–Gatherer Societies
The claim of possessing supernatural abilities is a commonly reported phenomenon across human societies. To bolster the credibility of such claims, performers may make use of illusions and sleight of hand to give the appearance of impressive powers. One common trick found among culturally independent hunter–gatherers on every continent they inhabit involves a healer ostensibly extracting from a sick person an object, such as a pebble or insect, t…
Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history. We took data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database and coded ethnographic documents from a sample of 131 largely non-industrial societies. We recorded whe…
Aggressive Mimicry and the Evolution of the Human Cognitive Niche
The evolutionary origins of deception and its functional role in our species is a major focus of research in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution, often packaged under either the Social Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes the role that the evolution of our social systems may have played in scaffolding our cognitive traits, and the Foraging Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes how changes in the human …
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Sacrifice, Secrecy, and Sexual Conflict in Small-Scale Religions
Purzycki and Sosis provide a functionalist account of religion, viewing it as an evolved system designed to help individuals and groups navigate the recurrent social dilemmas that humans face across diverse socioecological contexts. I discuss their framework in relation to ethnographic case studies involving human sacrifice, ritual secrecy, and sexual conflict in small-scale societies. I argue that, while there is a great deal in the ethno-histor…
Psychology (7 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Biology (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)