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I thought some of you might find this interesting.

Matt and I have submitted our first joint paper based on a study I designed and ran, and Matt helped to analyse.

It's about ritual intuitions and collective action problems cross-culturally. You can find the preprint available at the link if interested.

And don't worry that Gurus paper is still coming! This was one of the things in the way.

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Cross-Cultural Ritual Intuitions and Collective Action: Exploring preferences in four countries.

Anthropologists have long recognized that collective rituals promote social cohesion and cooperation. But do people intuitively know what kinds of rituals they should perform to produce distinct socially useful outcomes? It is not obvious that this should be the case.

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RareTripleBait

Congrats! 🥳🎊🎉 Let‘s see, what reviewer 2 has to say 👻

Paul Bowman

Congrats! Re "and to examine whether the patterns observed in our UK and US data are replicated in other monotheistic cultural contexts" - for future would be good to get a Muslim country in the mix. Maybe somewhere relatively developed and with a mostly secular, democratic(ish) politics, like Turkey for e.g?

Linda Sears

Thank you for sharing. I just had time to read the abstract, and it looks like a fascinating study. I had to laugh when I saw the words Supplemental Materials!!

Linda Sears

By the way, I had an absurd thought while reading this of someone creating a video game based on these different scenarios and ritual actions.