Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project.
A considerable body of research cross-culturally examines the evolution of religious traditions, beliefs and behaviors. The bulk of this research, however, draws from coded qualitative ethnographies rather than from standardized methods specifically designed to measure religious beliefs and behaviors. Psychological data sets that examine religious thought and behavior in controlled conditions tend to be disproportionately sampled from student populations. Some cross-national databases employ standardized methods at the individual level, but are primarily focused on fully market integrated, state-level societies. The Evolution of Religion and Morality Project sought to generate a data set that systematically probed individual level measures sampling across a wider range of human populations. The set includes data from behavioral economic experiments and detailed surveys of demographics, religious beliefs and practices, material security, and intergroup perceptions. This paper describes the methods and variables, briefly introduces the sites and sampling techniques, notes inconsistencies across sites, and provides some basic reporting for the data set.
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Benjamin Grant
BG
Purzycki
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Solomon Laboratories, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6241, USA.
Coren
C
Apicella
School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Human Sciences Building-East, Level 5, Room 201E-523, 10 Symonds St, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.|Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, Jena D-07745, Germany.
Quentin D
QD
Atkinson
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK.
Emma
E
Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4.
Rita Anne
RA
McNamara
Culture, and Development Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station #A8000, Austin, Texas 78712-0187, USA.
Aiyana K
AK
Willard
Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 354 Mansfield Road Unit 1176, Storrs, Connecticut 06029, USA.|Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, build. 1483, Aarhus DK-8000, Denmark.|LEVYNA, Masaryk University, Brno 60200, Czech Republic.
Dimitris
D
Xygalatas
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4.
Ara
A
Norenzayan
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4.|Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4.|Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Joseph
J
Henrich
D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D012067:Religion