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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020
Tight Cultures and Vengeful Gods: How Culture Shapes Religious Belief
- Joshua Jackson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Nava Caluori
University of Virginia - Samantha Abrams
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Michele Gelfand
Stanford University - Kurt Gray
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
People around the globe believe in wrathful or moralizing gods who punish immoral behavior, but little is known about how and why these beliefs emerge. We provide experimental and large-scale historical evidence that cultural tightness- the strictness of cultural norms and normative punishment- motivates punitive religious beliefs.
Religion
