Costly religious requirements directly explain group longevity in communes

Evidence

Thus, unlike the Good Samaritan study and ones like it, religious involvement predicted greater contributions to the public good, and greater likelihood of cooperation. One key difference is that reminders of God are likely to be more chronically present in religious kibbutz, madrassahs, and Candomble communities, where religious prayer and attendance are a daily part of life. Another is that prosociality in these communities clearly benefited in-group members (despite being anonymous), whereas in the Good Samaritan study, the victim was a total stranger. It is also possible that regular, communal prayer involves public ritual participation, which, independent of devotion to a morally concerned deity, might also encourage more prosociality. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 183 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Costly requirements, not religion per se, drove religious communes’ survival advantage; Large-scale cooperation and religion’s endurance explain each other; Religious behavior depends on situational context, observable action, and intergroup competition — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 19 (+4 more)

Related

• Chronic, communal, in-group religious practice drives the prosociality effect (similarity 0.89)
• Prosocial religious groups outcompeted rivals through internal cooperation. (similarity 0.88)
• Religious participation, not belief, drives support for intergroup conflict (similarity 0.86)
• Cost commitment, not religion per se, drives group survival advantage (similarity 0.85)
• Religion drives intergroup conflict through three mutable pathways, not belief alone (similarity 0.85)
• Costly religious requirements statistically explain why religious communes outlasted secular ones fourfold (similarity 0.83)
• Religious behavior depends on situational context, observable action, and intergroup competition (similarity 0.83)
• Religious group survival advantages stem from costly member requirements (similarity 0.83)
• Costly requirements predict religious group longevity independent of other factors (similarity 0.82)
• Daily communal prayer predicts greater cooperation in public goods games (similarity 0.82)
• Religious communes outlived secular ones but both mostly failed (similarity 0.82)
• Groups imposing costlier requirements attract more committed members (similarity 0.81)
• Witnessing an intense ritual boosts prosociality as much as participating in it (similarity 0.81)
• Communes’ costly member requirements predict group survival patterns (similarity 0.81)
• Costly requirements, not religion per se, drove religious communes’ survival advantage (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Chronic, communal, in-group religious practice drives the prosociality effect #corroborates (0.90) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 183
• Large-scale cooperation and religion’s endurance explain each other #corroborates (0.85)
• Religious conservative sexual norms serve demographic group survival #expands (0.80)
• Big God religion and large-scale cooperation co-evolved in feedback #corroborates (0.80)
• Religious behavior depends on situational context, observable action, and intergroup competition #qualifies (0.75) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 19