Families are central to the social and emotional development of youth, and most families engage in musical activities together, such as listening to music or talking about their favorite songs. However, empirical evidence of the positive effects of musical family rituals on social cohesion and emotional well-being is scarce. Furthermore, the role of culture in the shaping of musical family ritu...

Vishnu Narayan Mishra1,2, M. Mursaleen 3,∗ and Preeti Sharma 1 1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Humanities, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Ichchhanath Mahadev Dumas Road, Surat, Surat-395 007 (Gujarat), India 2 L.1627 Awadh Puri Colony Beniganj, Phase -III, Opposite Industrial Training Institute (I.T.I.), Ayodhya Main Road, Faizabad-224 001, (Uttar Pradesh), India 3...

Many religious traditions teach that we should worship God, and philosophers have explored the requirement to what might make God worthy of worship. These also prohibit worshipping other gods. This essay explores, from a Jewish perspective, it mean gods, rationale behind prohibition be, why be so grave.

BACKGROUND This study focused on hypotheses regarding the source of incompleteness in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). For this, we had to document the behavioral manifestation of incompleteness in compulsive rituals, predicting that an exaggerated focus on acts that are appropriate for the task will support the hypothesis on heightened responsibility/perfectionism. In contrast, activity pa...

From a survey of the behavior of animals in the wild, in captivity, under the influence of psychoactive drugs and in a model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), we identify that the behavioral repertoire invariably includes motor rituals, and that such rituals are performed at a few specific locations/objects in the environment with an orderly transition amongst locations/objects. The conce...

Religious rituals that are painful or highly stressful are hypothesized to be costly signs of commitment essential for the evolution of complex society. Yet few studies have investigated how such extreme ritual practices were culturally transmitted in past societies. Here, we report the first study to analyze temporal and spatial variation in bloodletting rituals recorded in Classic Maya (ca. 2...

Cave studies have traditionally relied heavily on ethnographic or ethnohistoric analogy to understand the sacred context ofM~soamericancaves. What is little understood are the behavioral processes that produced the artifact assembla?es In c~ves and the nature ofthe relationship between caves and their ancient users residing in surrounding surface sztes. Thzs study demonstrates that caves can pr...

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