Group Monitoring, Endogenous Crackdown and Anti-corruption: An Experiment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuguang Jiang
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2020 ◽  
Vol 375 (1805) ◽  
pp. 20190437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole J. Wen ◽  
Aiyana K. Willard ◽  
Michaela Caughy ◽  
Cristine H. Legare

Collective rituals serve social functions for the groups that perform them, including identifying group members and signalling group commitment. A novel social group paradigm was used in an afterschool programme ( N = 60 4–11-year-olds) to test the influence of participating in a ritual task on in-group displays and out-group monitoring over repeated exposures to the group. The results demonstrate that ritual participation increases in-group displays (i.e. time spent displaying materials to in-group members) and out-group monitoring (i.e. time spent looking at out-group members) compared with a control task across three time points. This study provides evidence for the processes by which rituals may influence children's behaviours towards in- and out-group members and discusses implications for understanding the development of ritual cognition and behaviour. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Ritual renaissance: new insights into the most human of behaviours’.


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