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People will be far more interested in actions than in events, and actions will be more common than events in their myths and folklore
Robert McCauley, E. Lawson (2002)
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Counterintuitive events will confound further inferences about an object
Counterintuitive events will be more attention demanding and memorable than intuitive events
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Special agent actions will have super-permanent effects, i.e., they will not require repetition for continued efficacy. Special patient rituals will have only temporary effects
B. Malley, J. Barrett (2003)
Can ritual form be predicted from religious belief? A test of the Lawson-McCauley hypotheses, 17
<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The rapid but disproportionate growth of the cognitive science of religion in some areas, coupled with the desire to meaningfully connect with more traditional, function-inspired classifications, has left the field with an incomplete and sometimes inconsistent typology of religious and related actions. We address this shortcoming by proposing a systematic typology of counterintuitive actions based on their cognitive representational structures. This typology may serve as the framework of a research program that seeks to establish (1) psychologically, whether each class of events receives different cognitive treatment within a given context and similar representation across contexts; and (2) anthropologically, whether the different classes are characterized by different performance frequencies, social functions, and kinds of interpretations, making them useful explanatory and predictive distinctions.</jats:p> </jats:sec>
Journal of Cognition and Culture – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
Keywords: COUNTERINTUITIVE; MAGIC; RITUAL; COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION; AGENTS
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