Rohan Kapitany
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Borg J, Buskell A, Kapitany R, Powers S, Reindl E, Tennie C
Artif Life
. 2023 May;
30(3):417-438.
PMID: 37253238
The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is "to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be." The study and pursuit...
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Kapitany R, Hampejs T, Goldstein T
Front Psychol
. 2022 Mar;
13:774085.
PMID: 35295391
Imaginative pretend play is often thought of as the domain of young children, yet adults regularly engage in elaborated, fantastical, social-mediated pretend play. We describe imaginative play in adults via...
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Davis J, Robertson E, Lew-Levy S, Neldner K, Kapitany R, Nielsen M, et al.
Child Dev
. 2021 Jan;
92(4):1574-1589.
PMID: 33476046
Preferences for pink and blue were tested in children aged 4-11 years in three small-scale societies: Shipibo villages in the Peruvian Amazon, kastom villages in the highlands of Tanna Island,...
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Kapitany R, Kavanagh C, Whitehouse H
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2020 Jun;
375(1805):20190436.
PMID: 32594875
Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity infinitely plastic or are there some general dimensions along which ritual features vary? We analyse...
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Nielsen M, Langley M, Shipton C, Kapitany R
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2020 Jun;
375(1805):20190424.
PMID: 32594872
There is a large, if disparate, body of archaeological literature discussing specific instantiations of symbolic material culture and the possibility of ritual practices in Neanderthal populations. Despite this attention, however,...
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Kavanagh C, Kapitany R, Putra I, Whitehouse H
Front Psychol
. 2020 Jun;
11:1172.
PMID: 32581966
A growing body of evidence suggests that two distinct forms of group alignment are possible: identification and fusion (the former asserts that group and personal identity are distinct, while the...
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Kapitany R, Nelson N, Burdett E, Goldstein T
PLoS One
. 2020 Jun;
15(6):e0234142.
PMID: 32555692
To what extent do children believe in real, unreal, natural and supernatural figures relative to each other, and to what extent are features of culture responsible for belief? Are some...
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Kapitany R, Kavanagh C
Behav Brain Sci
. 2019 May;
41:e79.
PMID: 31064551
We question the privileged role of trance within the framework presented. The features that Singh suggests make it unique are not well demarcated from those of rituals more generally, and...
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Kapitany R, Davis J, Legare C, Nielsen M
PLoS One
. 2018 Nov;
13(11):e0206884.
PMID: 30485288
Ritualized actions are common in daily life, and prevalent across cultures. Adults have been shown, under experimental conditions, to treat objects subjected to ritualized action as special and different relative...
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Wilks M, Kapitany R, Nielsen M
Br J Dev Psychol
. 2016 Feb;
34(3):402-14.
PMID: 26918867
Previous research has demonstrated an efficiency bias in social learning whereby young children preferentially imitate the functional actions of a successful individual over an unsuccessful group member. Our aim in...