Michal Fux
Biographic Data
| ID | 160418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michal Fux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michal |
| FAMILY NAME | Fux |
| SIGNATURE | FUX M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism
Millions of people have now taken DNA ancestry tests, with many of them looking for information about their origins or even their ethnic identity. However, what these tests can only do is allow for a probabilistic estimate of a person's similarity to a reference group. This is often based on research in population genetics that study human genetic variation by identifying ancestry informative markers, that is, DNA markers that are found more ofte…
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Towards a Standard Model of the Cognitive Science of Nationalism – the Calendar
The Cognitive Science of Nationalistic Behavior ( CSNB ), presented in this paper, integrates the political sciences of nationalities as invented communities with an evolutionary cognitive analysis of social forms as products of the human mind. The framework is modeled after the Cognitive Science of Religion, where decades of cross-disciplinary work has generated standards, predictions, and data about the role of individual cognitive tendencies i…
Cultural Transmission of Precautionary Ideas: The Weighted Role of Implicit Motivation
Inspired by the idea that cognitive systems evoke cultural phenomena, this study tested a theory suggesting precautionary cognitive mechanisms as both a constraint and an enabler of transmission of cultural concepts such as religious rituals. Using ‘restricted range of themes’ as a link between precautionary cognition and religious rituals, this cross cultural study of Zulu communities in sa tested people’s inferences about implications of failur…
Heraclitean Rivers: Zulu Cultural Transmission
Rituals are part of all religious systems and their transmission and stability have exercised many scholars for decades. Within cognitive anthropology competing views of cultural transmission have emerged in recent years in terms of the mechanisms by means of which cultural forms, including rituals, are transmitted and persist (or not) within societies. Two schools of thought focusing on (1) the “epidemiology of representations” and (2) memetic c…
Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Ecological Effects on Potential Danger Preoccupation Salience
Are Motor Collective Rituals as Rigid as They Seem? A Test Case of a Zulu Wedding Dance
Rituals are common in religion, sports, culture and specific life-stages (childhood, parenthood, etc.), raising the question of why being engaged in such activity, what could be its benefit, and how rigid they are. Here we analyzed 19 episodes of a Zulu Umsindo dance performed by 10 women. This ritual comprised a common act, performed in all dance episodes of all women, personal acts performed consistently by one woman but not by the others, and …
Are Motor Collective Rituals as Rigid as They Seem? A Test Case of a Zulu Wedding Dance
Rituals are common in religion, sports, culture and specific life-stages (childhood, parenthood, etc.), raising the question of why being engaged in such activity, what could be its benefit, and how rigid they are. Here we analyzed 19 episodes of a Zulu Umsindo dance performed by 10 women. This ritual comprised a common act, performed in all dance episodes of all women, personal acts performed consistently by one woman but not by the others, and …
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism
Millions of people have now taken DNA ancestry tests, with many of them looking for information about their origins or even their ethnic identity. However, what these tests can only do is allow for a probabilistic estimate of a person's similarity to a reference group. This is often based on research in population genetics that study human genetic variation by identifying ancestry informative markers, that is, DNA markers that are found more ofte…
Heraclitean Rivers: Zulu Cultural Transmission
Rituals are part of all religious systems and their transmission and stability have exercised many scholars for decades. Within cognitive anthropology competing views of cultural transmission have emerged in recent years in terms of the mechanisms by means of which cultural forms, including rituals, are transmitted and persist (or not) within societies. Two schools of thought focusing on (1) the “epidemiology of representations” and (2) memetic c…
Are Motor Collective Rituals as Rigid as They Seem? A Test Case of a Zulu Wedding Dance
Rituals are common in religion, sports, culture and specific life-stages (childhood, parenthood, etc.), raising the question of why being engaged in such activity, what could be its benefit, and how rigid they are. Here we analyzed 19 episodes of a Zulu Umsindo dance performed by 10 women. This ritual comprised a common act, performed in all dance episodes of all women, personal acts performed consistently by one woman but not by the others, and …
Heraclitean Rivers: Zulu Cultural Transmission
Rituals are part of all religious systems and their transmission and stability have exercised many scholars for decades. Within cognitive anthropology competing views of cultural transmission have emerged in recent years in terms of the mechanisms by means of which cultural forms, including rituals, are transmitted and persist (or not) within societies. Two schools of thought focusing on (1) the “epidemiology of representations” and (2) memetic c…
Rethinking Conventional Wisdom: Ecological Effects on Potential Danger Preoccupation Salience
Cultural Transmission of Precautionary Ideas: The Weighted Role of Implicit Motivation
Inspired by the idea that cognitive systems evoke cultural phenomena, this study tested a theory suggesting precautionary cognitive mechanisms as both a constraint and an enabler of transmission of cultural concepts such as religious rituals. Using ‘restricted range of themes’ as a link between precautionary cognition and religious rituals, this cross cultural study of Zulu communities in sa tested people’s inferences about implications of failur…
By-Product
Towards a Standard Model of the Cognitive Science of Nationalism – the Calendar
The Cognitive Science of Nationalistic Behavior ( CSNB ), presented in this paper, integrates the political sciences of nationalities as invented communities with an evolutionary cognitive analysis of social forms as products of the human mind. The framework is modeled after the Cognitive Science of Religion, where decades of cross-disciplinary work has generated standards, predictions, and data about the role of individual cognitive tendencies i…
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism
Millions of people have now taken DNA ancestry tests, with many of them looking for information about their origins or even their ethnic identity. However, what these tests can only do is allow for a probabilistic estimate of a person's similarity to a reference group. This is often based on research in population genetics that study human genetic variation by identifying ancestry informative markers, that is, DNA markers that are found more ofte…
Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)