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Watch me, watch you: ritual participation increases in-group displays and out-group monitoring in children.

ABSTRACT: 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'.

SUBMITTER: Wen NJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423253 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Watch me, watch you: ritual participation increases in-group displays and out-group monitoring in children.

Wen Nicole J NJ Willard Aiyana K AK Caughy Michaela M Legare Cristine H CH

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20200729 1805

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 (<i>N</i> = 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 t ...[more]

PMID: 32594874

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