TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert N McCauley
AU  - E Thomas Lawson
TI  - Bringing ritual to mind : : psychological foundations of cultural forms
SN  - 9780521016292
U1  - 291.380 MCC 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Cambridge University Press
KW  - Psychology, Religious
KW  - Ritual--Psychology
N1  - Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems --
Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs --
Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation --
Assessing the two hypotheses --
General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion
N2  - 	
Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious rituals. Religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance recollection. McCauley and Lawson use a wide range of evidence to argue that the explanation lies in participants' cognitive representations of ritual form
ER  -