Discerning devotion: Testing the signaling theory of religion

the analysis of the role of the speech acts theory in translating and dubbing hollywood films

از محوری ترین اثراتی که یک فیلم سینمایی ایجاد می کند دیالوگ هایی است که هنرپیش گان فیلم میگویند. به زعم یک فیلم ساز, یک شیوه متأثر نمودن مخاطب از اثر منظوره نیروی گفتارهای گوینده, مثل نیروی عاطفی, ترس آور, غم انگیز, هیجان انگیز و غیره, است. این مطالعه به بررسی این مسأله مبادرت کرده است که آیا نیروی فراگفتاری هنرپیش گان به مثابه ی اعمال گفتاری در پنج فیلم هالیوودی در نسخه های دوبله شده باز تولید...

Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion

The costly signaling theory of religion posits that religious rituals and taboos can promote intragroup cooperation, which is argued to be the primary adaptive benefit of religion. To test this theory, the authors collected historical data on the constraints and ritual requirements that eighty-three 19th-century U.S. communes imposed on their members. All communes must solve the collective acti...

Testing the Signaling Theory of Advertising: Evidence from Search Advertisements

Using a dataset of travel-related keywords obtained from a search engine, we test to what extent consumers are searching and advertisers are bidding in accordance with the signaling theory of advertising in literature. We find significant evidence that consumers are more likely to click on advertisers at higher positions because they infer that such advertisers are more likely to match with the...

Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion

Devotion for newborn children

“ROMMEDICA Medical Instruments and Equipment International Fair –” took place at Romexpo Exhibition Center in Bucharest between the 14th and the 16th of April 2016. The event, which represented an important source of information for the representatives of the health system in the public and private sector, was and still is the most important annual meeting place for the specialists in medicine ...