Involuntary bodily expressions function as hard-to-fake religious commitment signals

Evidence

Joseph Bulbulia offers a reformulation of costly signaling approaches, which he calls “commitment-signaling,” to address some of these concerns. For example, signaling can be credible if it is hard to fake, even if it is not costly. Examples include involuntary expressions of religious sentiment, such as convulsive weeping, shaking and trembling, and speaking in tongues. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 781

Categorization

• XREF: Fumi-e trampling as a deliberate public act sits against hard-to-fake involuntary CREDs—apostasy rituals fake commitment’s inverse.