Religious attendance as reproductive support
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Religious Attendance as Reproductive Support.
We argue that a central function of religious attendance in the contemporary U.S. is to support a high-fertility, monogamous mating strategy. Although religious attendance is correlated with many demographic, personality, moral, and behavioral variables, we propose that sexual and family variables are at the core of many of these relationships. Numerous researchers have assumed that religious s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution and Human Behavior
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1090-5138
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.03.004