How Dune Gets Religious Psychology Exactly Right

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Religion as depicted in Dune lines up with actual scientific theories of religious psychology in specific ways: Fremen religion contains costly signaling, those living in hardship are more religious, religious ritual helps the Fremen survive, fundamentalists support military intervention, and Paul uses Credibility Enhancing Displays to encourage belief in the prophecy and his place in it.





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Sources:

Richard Sosis study on communes
http://cognitionandculture.net/wp-content/uploads/Sosis_2003_CommuneLongevity.pdf

Sibley and Bulbulia study on religion and Christchurch earthquake
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3515557/

Henrich et al. study on war and religiosity
https://henrich.fas.harvard.edu/files/henrich/files/henrich_et_al-2019-nature_human_behaviour.pdf

Sosis and Handwerker on psalms recitation and anxiety
https://anthropology.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/944/2018/06/2011-Sosis-Psalms-and-Coping-with-Uncertainty.pdf

Rothschild et al. on fundamentalism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103109001280

Joseph Henrich and Andrew Henry interview on CREDs and feedback loops
https://youtu.be/s_M2odFfxno?si=nrzxAAK_Xo8CWLKI

Henrich et al. study on CREDs
https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/17250565/LanmanBuhrmesterCREDsFinal.pdf



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