ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention

Ramadan, Risk-Taking, and Cooperation in Resource Dilemmas: Communal Deprivation As a Cultural Response to Scarcity?

Virtual

Oral · Cultural Psychology

I show that Ramadan fasting is associated with lower openness to risk and greater cooperation in social resource dilemmas. I argue that collective deprivation ritual emerged as a socio-cultural response to scarcity.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Mostafa Salari RadSpeaker
    Princeton University
  • Mostafa Salari RadSpeaker
    Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy
  • Jeremy GingesDiscussant
    New School for Social Research
  • Morteza AnsariniaDiscussant
    University of Luxembourg