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Witchcraft, Envy, and Norm Enforcement in Mauritius.
Hum Nat
January 2025
Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, USA.
Recent research has shown that an array of religious beliefs can be used to enforce socially normative behaviour, but the application of these theories to other supernatural beliefs, including witchcraft, is still nascent. Across two pre-registered studies in Mauritius, we examine how witchcraft is believed to be caused by envy and how this belief can create and enforce social norms around not causing envy. Data was collected in-person in Mauritius.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhen to Blame Victims for Negligence: Noncooperators Are Deemed Responsible for Their Own Hardship.
Evol Psychol
November 2024
Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), Sciences-Po, Paris, France.
In four preregistered studies, we tested implications from a cooperation model that explains victim-blaming as a strategic move, as a way for people to avoid the costs of helping victims (who seem to be unpromising cooperation partners) without paying the reputational cost of being seen as ungenerous, reluctant cooperators. An implication of this perspective is that, if an individual is identified as a poor cooperation prospect to start with, people would be likely to blame that individual for his/her own misfortune, notably by suggesting that the victim was negligent. The four studies presented here support this interpretation, as participants attributed more negligence to an accident victim if that victim had been initially described as less prosocial, either because they denied benefits to others or because they created costs for others.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTickling induces a unique type of spontaneous laughter.
Biol Lett
November 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Laughing is ubiquitous in human life, yet what causes it and how it sounds is highly variable. Considering this diversity, we sought to test whether there are fundamentally different kinds of laughter. Here, we sampled spontaneous laughs ( = 887) from a wide range of everyday situations (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeeing others suffer and enjoying it? The Model of Individual and Social Appraisals of Misfortunes of others in media reception.
Front Psychol
August 2024
Department of Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
Suffering and misfortunes of other people are often portrayed in the media. Recipients react to these portrayals with different emotions. This article elucidates and clarifies schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) and sympathy (feeling concern or sorrow over another person's distress) in media experiences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPredictors of labor pain management among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Womens Health (Lond)
September 2024
School of Public Health, Institute of Health Science, Bule Hora University, Bule Hora, Ethiopia.
Background: Labor pain is the nastiest conceivable pain women are involved in during labor and delivery. In this way, the end of labor pain is frequently outlined by myths and equivocalness. Hence, giving a compelling absence of pain in labor remained a challenge specifically in developing countries including Ethiopia.
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