Estimated Costs and Benefits of Extreme Rituals in Mauritius
Why do people willingly engage in painful or exhausting rituals with no obvious material reward?
The study will revisit the association between the feeling of threat and agency detection, investigating which neurocognitive model of agency detection is worthy of further consideration.
The Stage 1 registered report was already accepted at Psychology of Religion and Spirituality and is available as a preprint:
Why do people willingly engage in painful or exhausting rituals with no obvious material reward?