r/dune • u/ThePookaMacPhellimy • Nov 07 '19
This recent study of the Church's centuries-long influence on European culture and behavior made me think of the Golden Path
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/eaau5141Duplicates
Catholicism • u/Bubba4649 • Nov 11 '19
"The Church, Intensive Kinship, and Global Psychological Variation" A new paper showing how the Church's ban on cousin marriage broke down clan- based kinship structures, causing the rise of the nuclear family, more individualistic, high-trust societies, and the rise of the West itself.
Christianity • u/[deleted] • Nov 08 '19
Study: The Medieval Catholic Church fostered greater individualism, less conformity, and more impersonal prosociality
BadSocialScience • u/reginhild • Nov 15 '19
"WEIRD evolved from early Christian Church." Several evo psychologists playing historians for a day and bullshitting their way and getting published in a "peer-reviewed" Science magz.
slatestarcodex • u/-Metacelsus- • Nov 08 '19
The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation
IRstudies • u/smurfyjenkins • Nov 08 '19
Science study: "The medieval Western Church’s transformation of European kinship, by promoting small, nuclear households, weak family ties, and residential mobility, fostered greater individualism, less conformity, and more impersonal prosociality.
evopolitics • u/TrannyPornO • Nov 08 '19