Department of Psychology, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2020 Aug 17;375(1805):20190429. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0429. Epub 2020 Jul 29.
This paper argues that rituals are mechanisms of resource management. The argument is based on four observations: (i) over the course of hominin evolution, fitness became contingent on psychological states; (ii) these psychological states can be understood as 'resources', not unlike material resources such as energy, food or fuel; (iii) ritual 'manages' these psychological resources-meaning that it cultivates, builds and directs them; and (iv) ritual management can be analytically decomposed, providing a new descriptive tool for understanding rituals and predictions about ritual survival. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ritual renaissance: new insights into the most human of behaviours'.
本文认为，仪式是资源管理的机制。该论点基于以下四个观察结果：(i) 在人类进化过程中，适应度取决于心理状态；(ii) 这些心理状态可以被理解为“资源”，与能量、食物或燃料等物质资源类似；(iii) 仪式“管理”这些心理资源，这意味着它培养、建立和引导它们；(iv) 仪式管理可以进行分析分解，为理解仪式和预测仪式的生存提供了新的描述性工具。本文是“仪式复兴：对最具人性行为的新见解”主题特刊的一部分。
