Ryan G Hornbeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 93665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan G Hornbeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hornbeck |
| SIGNATURE | HORNBECK R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | CNS Research (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2893-1750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Keeping Company: Exploring the Positive Dimensions of Emotional Labor in China's Pei Liao Industry
This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's pei liao industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional labor research outside anthropology have limited the extent to which emotional labor's brighter possibilities can be recognized—specifically, by framing it as inherently self‐deceptive, overlooking workers' interactional skill in shaping encounters, and …
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual
This paper introduces a tool designed to mitigate a longstanding challenge to developing social anthropological theories of ritual – how to generate enough comparable case studies for rigorously testing the predictive strength and generalizability of the theory under scrutiny. Our “constitutive relevance of models” (CRoM) test identifies structural continuities between anthropological and psychological theoretical models of ritual phenomena that …
Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture
Lawson and McCauley's ritual form hypothesis (RFH) appeals to natural cognition to capture several commonly observed features of religious rituals in one explanatory theory: (1) their repetition in the life of a participant tends to be distributed in bipolar fashion (typically only once in a lifetime or repeatedly, on the order of annually, monthly, weekly, or even daily); (2) their effects may or may not be reversed through other rituals; (3) th…
Experimental Method
Experimental methods are the only valid tool for drawing causal conclusions in the study of human thought and behavior. An experiment is a comparison of at least two conditions: the control condition (the baseline situation) and an experimental condition (what happens when a new factor is added to the baseline situation). The dependent variable in an experiment is the phenomenon being investigated, and the independent variable or variables are fa…
Explaining Time Spent in Multiplayer Online Games: Moral Cognition in Chinese World of Warcraft
Why do people spend time in massively multiplayer online games? This article aims to complement games studies' analytical toolkit with a material causal perspective on players' time spent in Chinese World of Warcraft ( WoW). I argue that the WoW gameworld is atypically rich in stimuli that have a strong, or supernormal, capacity to activate the moral cognition reasoning systems identified by Haidt and Joseph's "moral foundations theory." Testimon…
Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report
Is reasoning about religious ritual tethered to ordinary, nonreligious human reasoning about actions? E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley’s ritual form hypothesis ( rfh ) constitutes a cognitive approach to religious ritual – an explanatory theory that suggests people use ordinary human cognition to make specific predictions about ritual properties, relatively independent of cultural or religious particulars. Few studies assess the credibilit…
Refining and Testing “Counterintuitiveness” in Virtual Reality: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counterintuitive Representations
The experiment presented provides partial cross-cultural empirical support for Pascal Boyer's theory of the transmission of minimally counterintuitive (MCI) ideas. Boyer hypothesized that concepts with a small number of counterintuitive features are better remembered and more faithfully communicated than extremely counterintuitive concepts or comparable ordinary or even unusual concepts. This transmission advantage may help to explain the cross-c…
Refining and Testing “Counterintuitiveness” in Virtual Reality: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counterintuitive Representations
The experiment presented provides partial cross-cultural empirical support for Pascal Boyer's theory of the transmission of minimally counterintuitive (MCI) ideas. Boyer hypothesized that concepts with a small number of counterintuitive features are better remembered and more faithfully communicated than extremely counterintuitive concepts or comparable ordinary or even unusual concepts. This transmission advantage may help to explain the cross-c…
Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture
Lawson and McCauley's ritual form hypothesis (RFH) appeals to natural cognition to capture several commonly observed features of religious rituals in one explanatory theory: (1) their repetition in the life of a participant tends to be distributed in bipolar fashion (typically only once in a lifetime or repeatedly, on the order of annually, monthly, weekly, or even daily); (2) their effects may or may not be reversed through other rituals; (3) th…
Explaining Time Spent in Multiplayer Online Games: Moral Cognition in Chinese World of Warcraft
Why do people spend time in massively multiplayer online games? This article aims to complement games studies' analytical toolkit with a material causal perspective on players' time spent in Chinese World of Warcraft ( WoW). I argue that the WoW gameworld is atypically rich in stimuli that have a strong, or supernormal, capacity to activate the moral cognition reasoning systems identified by Haidt and Joseph's "moral foundations theory." Testimon…
Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report
Is reasoning about religious ritual tethered to ordinary, nonreligious human reasoning about actions? E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley’s ritual form hypothesis ( rfh ) constitutes a cognitive approach to religious ritual – an explanatory theory that suggests people use ordinary human cognition to make specific predictions about ritual properties, relatively independent of cultural or religious particulars. Few studies assess the credibilit…
Refining and Testing “Counterintuitiveness” in Virtual Reality: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counterintuitive Representations
The experiment presented provides partial cross-cultural empirical support for Pascal Boyer's theory of the transmission of minimally counterintuitive (MCI) ideas. Boyer hypothesized that concepts with a small number of counterintuitive features are better remembered and more faithfully communicated than extremely counterintuitive concepts or comparable ordinary or even unusual concepts. This transmission advantage may help to explain the cross-c…
Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report
Is reasoning about religious ritual tethered to ordinary, nonreligious human reasoning about actions? E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley’s ritual form hypothesis ( rfh ) constitutes a cognitive approach to religious ritual – an explanatory theory that suggests people use ordinary human cognition to make specific predictions about ritual properties, relatively independent of cultural or religious particulars. Few studies assess the credibilit…
Explaining Time Spent in Multiplayer Online Games: Moral Cognition in Chinese World of Warcraft
Why do people spend time in massively multiplayer online games? This article aims to complement games studies' analytical toolkit with a material causal perspective on players' time spent in Chinese World of Warcraft ( WoW). I argue that the WoW gameworld is atypically rich in stimuli that have a strong, or supernormal, capacity to activate the moral cognition reasoning systems identified by Haidt and Joseph's "moral foundations theory." Testimon…
Experimental Method
Experimental methods are the only valid tool for drawing causal conclusions in the study of human thought and behavior. An experiment is a comparison of at least two conditions: the control condition (the baseline situation) and an experimental condition (what happens when a new factor is added to the baseline situation). The dependent variable in an experiment is the phenomenon being investigated, and the independent variable or variables are fa…
Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture
Lawson and McCauley's ritual form hypothesis (RFH) appeals to natural cognition to capture several commonly observed features of religious rituals in one explanatory theory: (1) their repetition in the life of a participant tends to be distributed in bipolar fashion (typically only once in a lifetime or repeatedly, on the order of annually, monthly, weekly, or even daily); (2) their effects may or may not be reversed through other rituals; (3) th…
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual
This paper introduces a tool designed to mitigate a longstanding challenge to developing social anthropological theories of ritual – how to generate enough comparable case studies for rigorously testing the predictive strength and generalizability of the theory under scrutiny. Our “constitutive relevance of models” (CRoM) test identifies structural continuities between anthropological and psychological theoretical models of ritual phenomena that …
Keeping Company: Exploring the Positive Dimensions of Emotional Labor in China's Pei Liao Industry
This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's pei liao industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional labor research outside anthropology have limited the extent to which emotional labor's brighter possibilities can be recognized—specifically, by framing it as inherently self‐deceptive, overlooking workers' interactional skill in shaping encounters, and …
Epistemology (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works)