First paper of the PD out!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We argue that we can think about the start of a new collective ritual as a Stag Hunt Game. But a frequency-independent payoff is needed to get it going. In our case, perceived miracles is such a mechanism!
Pilgrimage has received long-standing scholarly attention, but most theoretical work
focuses on how these rituals can be maintained, rather than the bigger puzzle of how
they emerge. Using empirical i...
