Why Rituals Exist Everywhere & The Exercise Paradox - SYSK Choice

649.378 - 673.835 Dimitris Xygalatas

For example, in my own research that I've done with my colleagues, when we bring people into a lab and we stress them up, we see that their behavior becomes more ritualized. Their movements become more repetitive. And we take this research into the real world and we go into religious temples and we measure people's anxiety before and after they perform their cultural rituals.