Uncertainty and rituals Journal Articles

abstract

• Boyer & Lienard (B&L) elegantly elaborate the links between normal motivational systems and psychopathology and address the evolutionary and cultural context of ritualized behaviors. However, their model omits a key property of the security-motivation (hazard-precaution) system, and this property suggests that ritualized behavior may generate an alternate satiety signal by substituting, in place of uncertainty, a problem that is verifiably solvable.

authors

• Woody, Erik Z
• Szechtman, Henry

status

• published 

publication date

• December 2006

has subject area

• 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing (FoR)
• 1109 Neurosciences (FoR)
• 1702 Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Experimental Psychology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences  Journal

keywords

• Behavioral Sciences
• DISTURBANCE
• Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• Neurosciences
• Neurosciences & Neurology
• OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
• Psychology
• Psychology, Biological
• SECURITY MOTIVATION
• Science & Technology
• Social Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s0140525x06009563

start page

• 634

end page

• 635

volume

• 29

issue

• 6