Outputs (7)

Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0436

Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity
infinitely plastic or are there some general dimensions along which ritual features vary? We analysed two cross-cultural datasets, one dr... Read More about Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice.

Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens. (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, -. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0424

There is a large, if disparate, body of archaeological literature discussing specific instantiations of symbolic material culture and the possibility of ritual practices in Neanderthal populations. Despite this attention, however, no single synthesis... Read More about Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens..

Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice. (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 20190436 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0436

Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity infinitely plastic or are there some general dimensions along which ritual features vary? We analyse two cross-cultural datasets: one draw... Read More about Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice..

Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019-0424

There is a large, if disparate, body of archaeological literature discussing specific instantiations of symbolic material culture and the possibility of ritual practices in Neanderthal populations. Despite this attention, however, no single synthesis... Read More about Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens.

The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures. (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234142

To what extent do children believe in real, unreal, natural and supernatural figures relative to each other, and to what extent are features of culture responsible for belief? Are some figures, like Santa Claus or an alien, perceived as more real tha... Read More about The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures..

Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion. (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 1172 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01172

A growing body of evidence suggests that two distinct forms of group alignment are possible: identification and fusion (the former asserts that group and personal identity are distinct, while the latter asserts group and personal identities are funct... Read More about Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion..

Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory (2020)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2020). Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory. Self and Identity, 293 - 323. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2019.1578686

The US Presidential Inauguration is a symbolic event which arouses significant emotional responses among diverse groups, and is of considerable significance to Americans’ personal and social identities. We argue that the inauguration qualifies as an... Read More about Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory.