Journal article
Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination
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Researchers have recently proposed that "moralistic" religions-those with moral doctrines, moralistic supernatural punishment, and lower emphasis on ritual-emerged as an effect of greater wealth and material security. One interpretation appeals to life history theory, predicting that individuals with "slow life history" strategies will be more attracted to moralistic traditions as a means to judge those with "fast life history" strategies. As we had reservations about the validity of this app...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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John Templeton Foundation
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- e0193856
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-19
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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29513766
- Source identifiers:
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828770
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:828770
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- Local pid:
- pubs:828770
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Purzycki et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 Purzycki et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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