Connor Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 6773146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connor Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connor |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5440-804X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology scale
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology (MRI) scale is a new 43-item measure that quantifies conservative versus liberal aspects of religious ideology. The MRI focuses on recurring features of ideology rooted in innate moral instincts while capturing salient differences in the ideological profiles of distinct groups and individuals. The MRI highlights how religious ideology differs from political ideology while maintaining a robust grounding in t…
Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies
Article Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 4, issue 1)
Religion, Evolution, and the Basis of Institutions
Few outstanding questions in the human behavioral sciences are timelier or more urgently debated than the evolutionary source of religious behaviors and beliefs. Byproduct theorists locate the origins of religion in evolved cognitive defaults and transmission biases. Others have argued that cultural evolutionary processes integrated non-adaptive cognitive byproducts into coherent networks of supernatural beliefs and ritual that encouraged in-grou…
The Rhythms of Discontent
Synchrony — intentional, rhythmic motor entrainment in groups — is an important topic in social psychology and the cognitive science of religion. Synchrony has been found to increase trust and prosociality, to index interpersonal attention, and to induce perceptions of similarity and group cohesion. Causal explanations suggest that synchrony induces neurocognitive self-other blurring, leading participants to process one another as identical. In l…
Trance, Dissociation, and Shamanism
Religious practices centered on controlled trance states, such as Siberian shamanism or North African zar , are ubiquitous, yet their characteristics vary. In particular, cross-cultural research finds that female-dominated spirit possession cults are common in stratified societies, whereas male-dominated shamanism predominates in structurally flatter cultures. Here, we present an agent-based model that explores factors, including social stratific…
Ritual well-being
Religion is positively correlated with subjective well-being across a variety of contexts, but convincing causal models are lacking. Some researchers have suggested that religion may boost self-control, and thus well-being, by requiring effortful rituals. This article proposes that costly signaling theory provides a vital explanatory tool for understanding these relationships. Signaling theories posit that religious adherents signal their commitm…
Ritual and the logic of self-regulation
I would like to thank the commentators for their useful critiques and suggestions. There is a great deal of ground to cover in a short space, so I will plunge immediately into what I consider the m
Religion, Kognition, Evolution
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Religion, Kognition, Evolution
Ritual well-being
Religion is positively correlated with subjective well-being across a variety of contexts, but convincing causal models are lacking. Some researchers have suggested that religion may boost self-control, and thus well-being, by requiring effortful rituals. This article proposes that costly signaling theory provides a vital explanatory tool for understanding these relationships. Signaling theories posit that religious adherents signal their commitm…
Ritual and the logic of self-regulation
I would like to thank the commentators for their useful critiques and suggestions. There is a great deal of ground to cover in a short space, so I will plunge immediately into what I consider the m
Religion, Evolution, and the Basis of Institutions
Few outstanding questions in the human behavioral sciences are timelier or more urgently debated than the evolutionary source of religious behaviors and beliefs. Byproduct theorists locate the origins of religion in evolved cognitive defaults and transmission biases. Others have argued that cultural evolutionary processes integrated non-adaptive cognitive byproducts into coherent networks of supernatural beliefs and ritual that encouraged in-grou…
The Rhythms of Discontent
Synchrony — intentional, rhythmic motor entrainment in groups — is an important topic in social psychology and the cognitive science of religion. Synchrony has been found to increase trust and prosociality, to index interpersonal attention, and to induce perceptions of similarity and group cohesion. Causal explanations suggest that synchrony induces neurocognitive self-other blurring, leading participants to process one another as identical. In l…
Trance, Dissociation, and Shamanism
Religious practices centered on controlled trance states, such as Siberian shamanism or North African zar , are ubiquitous, yet their characteristics vary. In particular, cross-cultural research finds that female-dominated spirit possession cults are common in stratified societies, whereas male-dominated shamanism predominates in structurally flatter cultures. Here, we present an agent-based model that explores factors, including social stratific…
Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies
Article Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 4, issue 1)
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology scale
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology (MRI) scale is a new 43-item measure that quantifies conservative versus liberal aspects of religious ideology. The MRI focuses on recurring features of ideology rooted in innate moral instincts while capturing salient differences in the ideological profiles of distinct groups and individuals. The MRI highlights how religious ideology differs from political ideology while maintaining a robust grounding in t…
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)