Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities
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- Supernatural beliefs that mildly violate intuitions spread better than others (similarity 0.82)
- Majority and prestigious endorsement boosts spread of supernatural beliefs (similarity 0.82)
- Belief in supernatural watchers depends on both intuitive cognition and cultural transmission (similarity 0.81)
- Supernatural monitoring, not moral emotions alone, scaled prosociality to mass societies (similarity 0.81)
- Group expansion drives religion toward moral, demanding, interventionist gods (similarity 0.81)
- As groups grow, moral enforcement and religion become intertwined. (similarity 0.80)
- Supernatural monitoring drove human groups to scale from small bands to vast societies (similarity 0.80)
- Religious belief stems from both intuitive cognition and cultural transmission mechanisms. (similarity 0.79)
- Prosocial religious cohesion inherently requires excluding nonbelievers from trust (similarity 0.79)
- Moral intuitions bind strangers into sacred communities that outcompete rivals (similarity 0.79)
- The Church’s moral language structured who counted as monstrous others (similarity 0.79)
- Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals (similarity 0.78)
- Religious groups outsourced monitoring to gods and outcompeted rivals (similarity 0.78)