Big God participation raises economic game offers by 6 to 10 percentile points

Evidence

This association is obviously correlational, meaning that we cannot conclusively determine what causes what. However, when Roes and Raymond controlled for some obvious alternative possibilities, the association remained unchanged. For example, large societies have Big Gods not simply because large groups happen to be more likely to have been exposed to Christian and Muslim missionary activity. Moreover, large groups have Big Gods not just because Big Gods legitimize social and economic inequality. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 418 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Big God religion and large-scale cooperation co-evolved in feedback; Group size predicts Big Gods independent of stratification and missionary contact — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 418

Related

• Group size predicts Big Gods independent of stratification and missionary contact (similarity 0.90)
• Big Gods prevalence should increase with group size (similarity 0.86)
• Big Gods were necessary but not sufficient for group expansion. (similarity 0.84)
• Big God religion and large-scale cooperation co-evolved in feedback (similarity 0.83)
• Big God prosocial religions contributed to, not merely resulted from, large-scale societies (similarity 0.83)
• Big God belief enabled group cooperation that agriculture alone could not achieve. (similarity 0.83)
• Big Gods and large-scale cooperation mutually reinforced each other’s expansion (similarity 0.81)
• Big God belief plus costly displays boosted Islamic trade success in Africa (similarity 0.79)
• Resource conflict, large groups, and watchful gods co-occur across world societies. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Big God religion and large-scale cooperation co-evolved in feedback #corroborates (0.85)
• Group size predicts Big Gods independent of stratification and missionary contact #corroborates (0.70) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 418