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Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans

Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this avoidance influences people's perceptions of leaders’ underlying traits, but few, if any, quantitative data exist testing these claims. Here we show that shamans in a small-scale society observe cost...

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Autores principales: Singh, Manvir, Henrich, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.32

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