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What else is driving ritualized behavior, besides the Hazard-Precaution system? Developmental, psychopathological, and ethnological considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Oana Benga  and
Ileana Benga
Oana Benga*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania www.psychology.ro
Ileana Benga*
Affiliation:
Folklore Institute of the Romanian Academy, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
*
oanabenga@psychology.ro
ileana_benga@yahoo.it
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Abstract

The target article presents arguments for a motivational system dedicated exclusively to the detection of, and reaction to, particular threats to fitness, the so-called Hazard-Precaution System, which, according to the authors, drives ritualized behavior. We approach the issue of a motivational system from three perspectivesdevelopmental, psychopathological, and ethnological.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 615 - 616
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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