Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Watch me, watch you: ritual participation increases in-group displays and out-group monitoring in children.


ABSTRACT: Collective rituals serve social functions for the groups that perform them, including identifying group members and signalling group commitment. A novel social group paradigm was used in an afterschool programme (N = 60 4-11-year-olds) to test the influence of participating in a ritual task on in-group displays and out-group monitoring over repeated exposures to the group. The results demonstrate that ritual participation increases in-group displays (i.e. time spent displaying materials to in-group members) and out-group monitoring (i.e. time spent looking at out-group members) compared with a control task across three time points. This study provides evidence for the processes by which rituals may influence children's behaviours towards in- and out-group members and discusses implications for understanding the development of ritual cognition and behaviour. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ritual renaissance: new insights into the most human of behaviours'.

SUBMITTER: Wen NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423253 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC7560835 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3510181 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC4860295 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC7536122 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5945315 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC7423254 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6536323 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC9245655 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8248759 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4476063 | biostudies-literature