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Adventists, Popular Culture, and the Arts
Authors: Clark Diller Lisa 
Published: May 2024

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The Seventh-day Adventist church’s founding identity was as a “peculiar” people. But by the late twentieth century, most Adventists were living comfortably within their social and cultural contexts. This chapter traces developments within twentieth-century English-speaking Adventism, arguing that while many contemporary Adventists participate in their wider culture, entertainment, and the arts without much thought, others are more intentional. Many church leaders utilized popular culture purely as a means of articulating the gospel; others developed theological frameworks for how to think about art and everyday leisure activities. Those in educational work or on the edges of youth ministry were especially insistent on the value of engaging with social norms. Whether rooting such cultural participation in evangelism, Christian worldview, or the work of justice and beauty-making that all humans are asked to do, these leaders desired to connect Adventist cultural practices to their history and theology
Eschatology, Great Controversy, and Prophetic Interpretation
Authors: McVay John K. 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter discusses the eschatology of Seventh-day Adventism, the church’s teaching about the last-day events that conclude human history. These events focus on the Second Coming of Jesus, which Adventism understands to be a glorious and public event that occurs before the millennium, a period of one thousand years. This understanding of eschatology is informed by the metanarrative of the Great Controversy or cosmic conflict between God and Satan, especially as set out in Ellen White’s volume, The Great Controversy. The church’s views of eschatology are derived from the Bible based on a pattern of interpretation known as historicism, which was exhibited by the reformers in the sixteenth century and William Miller in the nineteenth century. Historicism argues that apocalyptic prophecies portray the stream of history from the time of the author until the end of time.
American Buddhism, Modernity, and Globalization
Authors: Emory-Moore Christopher 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter provides a theoretical and historical overview of the social processes of modernization and globalization as they have shaped Buddhism in North America. After outlining the received scholarly portrait of Buddhist modernism as a pattern of global religious reform that reinterprets traditional Asian Buddhism along the lines of scientific rationalism and Romanticism, the chapter charts the diverse ways that these processes of Buddhist adaptation have developed in response to the colonial globalization of European modernity since the late nineteenth century. It re-evaluates the Eurocentric assumption, implicit in a common conflation of the binaries traditional/modern with Asian-ethnic/Western-convert, that Buddhism began modernizing in the West and argues that Buddhist adaptations in North America are generally not unique to this region, but are local manifestations of greater trends in global Buddhism. Finally, it summarizes emerging “postmodern” patterns in American Buddhism and critically reflects on the multivalence of the categories “modern” and “traditional” for Buddhist scholars and practitioners.
American Buddhism and Judaism
Authors: Michaelson Jay 
Published: May 2024

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American Jews have been disproportionately present in the leadership and membership of American Buddhist communities. Surveying the work of Emily Sigalow, Mira Niculescu Weil, and others, this chapter analyzes five modes of Buddhist-Jewish interaction. First, Jewish “converts” who leave behind Judaism to build Buddhist communities in America, bringing with them various aspects of secular Jewish culture and values. Second, Jewish “secularizers” who helped create secular mindfulness, particularly in healthcare contexts. Third, “integrators” who integrate Buddhist practices and philosophy into Jewish spirituality, creating what Niculescu Weil calls “Jewish mindfulness” with varying degrees of acknowledgment of Buddhist influence, and often using Buddhist techniques and practices to attain Jewish spiritual goals. Fourth, “hybridizers” who explicitly blend Buddhism and Judaism in spiritual practice. And fifth, “responders” who reject Buddhism but discover, or create, “native” forms of Jewish meditation that nonetheless owe a great deal to Buddhist techniques and values.
Compassion
Authors: Goetz Jennifer L. , Simon-Thomas Emiliana 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter presents compassion as an emotion evolved to promote nurturance and cooperation. What does an evolutionary approach bring to the understanding of compassion? An evolutionary approach brings particular questions to the fore, including the origins and functions of compassion, which then lead directly to questions about the antecedents and situations in which compassion occurs, the biological structures and mental processes by which compassion emerges, the behavioral expression and outcomes of compassion, and the degree to which compassion is universal or variable across cultures. The authors review research on these questions while also providing an update of their predictions and model of compassion.
Evolution, Emotion, and Facial Behavior
Authors: J. Fridlund Alan , A. Russell James 
Published: May 2024

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Most twentieth-century theories of emotion and behaviors mis-cited Darwin to claim that certain facial behaviors evolved to express emotion. Such theories of “facial expressions of emotion” were: (a) misidentified as evolutionary, and (b) biased toward finding universality in facial behaviors; they were mistaken in (c) holding that such universality implied biology but diversity implied culture, and (d) presenting faces as iconic and acontextual. Based on modern evolutionary theory and data, we offer the Behavioral Ecology View of facial displays as an adaptationist framework based on contemporary ethological conceptions of animal signaling and communication. On this view, faces traditionally attributed to emotion are intention movements which act as contextual “social tools” to modify the trajectories of our social interactions and negotiations. These facial behaviors evolved atomistically with their own instrumentality, rather than as outputs of central emotion mechanisms.
Emotions and Status Hierarchies
Authors: Durkee Patrick K. 
Published: May 2024

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Emotions define and are defined by status hierarchies. This chapter examines human emotions in relation to hierarchy navigation. Because emotional adaptations evolve in response to selective pressures, the chapter first presents evidence supporting the ubiquity of hierarchies and the fitness-relevance of status in the ancestral past. Next, the author provides a sketch of the recurrent adaptive challenges likely posed by life within hierarchically organized groups to circumscribe the hierarchy-navigation tasks that emotional adaptations are expected to address. The chapter then highlights several emotions—pride, shame, envy, admiration, respect, contempt, anger, and fear—that appear to facilitate hierarchy navigation, reviews the evidence for their functional design, and explores ways in which relative differences in status may modulate recurring emotional experiences. Finally, the author discusses how understanding the interplay between emotions and hierarchy navigation can inform understanding of broad individual differences.
Emotions in Politics
Authors: van Leeuwen Florian , Bang Petersen Michael 
Published: May 2024

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Politics is the process of negotiating resources, both in the here-and-now and in the future, by establishing rules about resource allocation. Previous work has argued that adaptations for politics include capacities for political judgment and behavior. The chapter reviews the key role played by emotions for both political judgment and behavior. First, the authors detail how emotions that specifically evolved for negotiation (e.g., anger and envy) influence political judgment and behavior. Second, they review how a number of emotions that were not designed for negotiation also influence political judgment and behavior. Specifically, they review work on the relation between disgust and political attitudes for illustration. Overall, the authors argue for the view that emotions are inherent to politics. Politics—including persuasion, ideology, social coordination, and the pursuit of long-term political goals—cannot be disentangled from emotions. Hence, the classical opposition between emotion and rationality in politics is misleading.
Leadership as an Emotional Process
Authors: Lonati Sirio , H. Garfield Zachary , Bastardoz Nicolas , von Rueden Christopher 
Published: May 2024

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A growing literature has recently focused on evolutionary perspectives on both leadership and followership. Distinct from traditional approaches—rooted especially in organizational psychology and management—this body of work has mainly concentrated on the adaptive value and the phylogeny of leadership, while generally neglecting the role of emotions in structuring the emergence and effectiveness of leader-follower relationships. This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical results from both organizational and evolutionarily informed approaches to leadership and emotions, with the aim of bridging these literature streams. Ultimately, the authors ask, can we better understand leadership and followership in small groups or large organizations by studying jointly the evolutionary and emotional processes underpinning them? Within a multidisciplinary framework touching upon psychology, biology, and anthropology, they highlight how these fields can increasingly intersect in future research, discussing especially (but not only) the illustrative example of charismatic leadership.
Emotions in Co-Rumination
Authors: L. Calvi Jessica , Byrd-Craven Jennifer 
Published: May 2024

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Co-rumination is a developmental psychology concept that encompasses the social process of rehashing, speculation, mutual encouragement, and negative affect about a problem, originally described in Rose’s (2002) observation in youths’ same-sex friendships. The negative valence of the emotional content and verbal processing of a social problem are both integral to the construct, such that co-rumination facilitates trade-offs between intimacy and internalizing symptoms in same-sex friendships. Emotional contagion facilitates nonverbal communication in humans and has biological underpinnings that communicate emotional content and encourage synchrony between conspecifics. Co-rumination and associated processes may represent part of a suite of adaptations that facilitate alliance formation with non-kin. This chapter summarizes the recent literature on co-rumination, emotional contagion, empathy, and their biological underpinnings, and places these processes in the broader context of human sociality.
Emotion and Empathy in Great Apes
Authors: Clay Zanna , A. Austry Diane 
Published: May 2024

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Humans and other great apes have evolved rich social and emotional capacities that enable them to navigate their complex social worlds. These include sophisticated ways to produce, perceive, and express affective states, as well as to respond effectively to the states of others. A distinctive feature of human emotional functioning is empathy, the capacity to share and understand others’ states. Far from being uniquely human, empathy has a deep evolutionary history and may be found across diverse animal species in both mammals and birds. This chapter examines some of the continuities between the emotional processes, including empathy of humans and our closest ape relatives. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (P. paniscus) are our closest cousins and show numerous overlaps in their socio-affective and cognitive capacities, social structures, and life histories. Studying their emotional and empathic capacities reveals many overlaps, highlighting a deep evolutionary basis of hominid emotionality.
An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion Regulation
Authors: A. Kisley Michael 
Published: May 2024

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Emotion regulation includes a broad and diverse array of cognitive and behavioral phenomena, the common underlying feature being the explicit, voluntary alteration of one’s emotions. Given the critical adaptive and system-coordinating functions that emotional responses provide, it is not immediately clear why the ability to modify one’s emotions would have evolved. But, as argued here, emotion regulation can increase reproductive success through a number of mechanisms including improved management of threats and competitive situations, flexible adjustment to social environments, and the advantageous expenditure of limited physiological, cognitive, and behavioral resources. So-called maladaptive emotion regulation is also considered from an evolutionary perspective. Sex differences, sexual selection, cultural relativity, and certain behaviors in non-human animals are also discussed, given their relevance to an evolutionary understanding of emotion regulation. This review is anticipated to be of relevance to emotion regulation researchers, as well as to evolutionary psychologists who study emotion function.
Credible Sadness, Coercive Sadness
Authors: Hagen Edward H. , L. Syme Kristen 
Published: May 2024

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Evolutionary medicine offers the insight that many unpleasant conditions such as physical pain are not harmful in themselves, but are evolved mechanisms to mitigate harm. A major goal of the field is to distinguish illnesses from aversive conditions that are evolved defenses. There are numerous evolutionary theories of depression, but many fail to account for the central role of conflict and cannot explain suicidality. This chapter reviews evidence from Western and non-Western societies that depression is caused by adversity, conflict, and powerlessness. The most parsimonious theory is that depression evolved, in part, as a form of psychological pain that functions to mitigate harm, credibly signal need, and coerce help when the powerless are in conflicts with powerful others.
Ancient Arts
Authors: Langley Michelle C. 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter outlines the body marking traditions of Indigenous Australia. It explores the extensive temporal and spatial use of piercing, scarification, and other deliberate modifications to the human body on this ancient continent through reference to archaeological findings and early European observations of Indigenous practices. Differences in the marking of male and female bodies are summarized and the cultural context in which these procedures are performed is outlined. Often having roots in the Dreamtime, these body marking practices connect the individual not only with their community and Country, but also to the forces which create and re-create the lands on which they live.
“Singing Their Heads Off”
Authors: Pawley Alisun 
Published: May 2024

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Singing along to a song at a pub or nightclub, where music can facilitate social bonding, is a form of spontaneous music-making frequently found in Northern England. This chapter reports the ethnographical findings of a field study carried out on sing-along behavior at entertainment venues across that region. Following a discussion of singing, social bonding, identity, and the body, eight types of sing-along behavior are presented: jaw-clenching, daydreaming, transient, conversational, flirtatious, stylized, reveling, and collectively effervescent. Behavior is explored in relationship to physical movement, social interaction, and communication. Variables that were difficult to quantify but that affect sing-along behavior are also reported, including lighting, volume, and inebriation levels. Finally, using firsthand accounts, the role that the DJ and performer play in audience sing-along behavior is discussed, including their use of invitations and platforms that encourage revelers to join in with a song.
It’s about the Relationships
Authors: Mantie Roger , Marais Glenn 
Published: May 2024

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In this chapter, the experience of offering music programming in three retirement homes in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, is used to problematize the meaning and value of recreational singing for older adults. Specifically, this chapter focuses on the paradigmatic shift in approach that occurred over the six-month period of the program. Originally conceived as an intervention to address feelings of loneliness and social isolation, responsive relationship building and a spirit of reciprocity eventually took precedence over the expectation to engage participants in song. By eschewing the expectation of “expertise” and embracing humility, symbiotic relationships between facilitators and participants resulted in a collective circle of connection and friendship.
Community Singing as Counterculture in a Women’s Prison
Authors: Weber Amanda 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter examines community singing in a state prison context, with a focus on Voices of Hope (VOH), a women’s prison choir in Minnesota. After a brief overview of incarceration, music, and gender in US prisons, the author examines the countercultural nature of community singing as it relates to VOH. The author then evaluates three concepts central to the choir’s mission: restorative justice, communal mindset, and awareness/advocacy. Finally, the chapter provides evidence of the transformative power of community singing, using quotes and stories from current and former VOH singers. The author uses a narrative approach, inviting the reader into an empathetic rather than analytical space in an effort to elevate the voices of incarcerated singers.
What the Pandemic Couldn’t Take Away
Authors: Norton Kay 
Published: May 2024

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A choir in Mount Vernon, Washington, United States made international headlines in March of 2020 when epidemiologists studying the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 began to document the viral aftermath of one of its weekly rehearsals. Responding to mounting evidence from the scientific community, people across the globe simply stopped singing in groups. With the goal of illuminating which rewards survived when virtual group singing replaced live group singing in this watershed year, this author launched a survey on November 25, 2020. The participants, 204 English-speaking respondents from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, included professional and amateur, religious, and secular singers participating in process- and performance-oriented singing. The limitations of platforms such as Zoom left many participants frustrated, but several benefits of virtual group vocalization survived or surfaced: singing with those far away, a greater sense of democracy among inhibited and more confident singers, the freedom to do household chores while rehearsing, and a sense of inter-group cohesion. In addition, the more isolated or otherwise limited the respondents felt, the more important virtual opportunities were. Those most dissatisfied with virtual group singing appeared to be the ones for whom live group rehearsals posed the fewest challenges. This chapter synthesizes and discusses the broad range of responses from singers who both participated in live group singing during the three months before March 31, 2020 and in virtual group singing after that date. For many, group singing was too important to postpone during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Role of Hate Songs among Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Fans
Authors: Bensimon Moshe , Hen Shiran 
Published: May 2024

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Chants add color and atmosphere to football (aka US soccer) games and constitute an integral part of the spectator experience. However, chanting cheers for a favorite football team and fans or hate songs against opposing teams and fans may play a more significant role in the football scene than providing mere entertainment. The current phenomenological study focuses on the perception, meaning, and mechanisms of hate songs in football games as seen through the eyes of nine Israeli football fans. Analysis of semi-structured interviews shows that, while in the stadium, participants identified with the atmosphere of hegemonic masculinity that emphasized chauvinism and patrilineal transmission (“father-to-son”) of racist views and dehumanization of rival fans and players. Participants rationalized the collective values expressed in the hate songs by applying techniques to neutralize their feelings of guilt. The findings point to intergenerational transmission of actual hatred through hate songs, whereby fathers serve as role models for continuing this legacy. Finally, the chapter’s original conception, the entrapping loop of hatred, reflects the mechanisms involved in creating hatred that is passed down from one generation to the next.
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes of Entrainment in Communal Singing
Authors: Hayward Guy 
Published: May 2024

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From a scientific perspective, this chapter examines the dynamic process of group synchronization/entrainment inherent within communal singing, and explores how it can be elucidated by top-down and bottom-up explanations. Much of the theoretical basis for understanding this interaction between the volatile actions of individuals and the stable system of the temporal pulse in communal music-making comes from systems theory and complexity theory, briefly reviewed here. In addition, the author assesses more practical research that focuses on real-life collective behavior in animals (e.g., flocks of birds and schools of fish) and humans. Also included are several current explanations of embodied entrainment. Human experimental psychological research into joint action is also referenced to show how the processes of embodied entrainment and joint action are currently explained, as well as empirical literature that examines gesture, visual communication, leader-follower relationships in group hierarchy, joint speech entrainment, and even inter-group entrainment, all in the context of group musical interaction, which forms the basis of community singing. This chapter’s purpose is to gather together the various investigative methods and frameworks that underpin our understanding of how entrainment works in group singing. It shows the relative explanatory power of each and how they can be integrated.
Community Singing in the Age of Coronavirus
Authors: Duchan Joshua S. 
Published: May 2024

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Collegiate a cappella gained popularity in the United States during the 20th century and had expanded internationally by the turn of the 21st as a result of recordings and live performance competitions. As a genre and practice, it features groups of college-aged singers who rehearse and perform popular songs without accompaniment. Vocalists often emulate instrumental sounds, a cappella, while supporting a lead singer. Importantly, through their participation, group members gain not only opportunities for performance but also social support during a critical period of transition in their lives: college.
As the COVID-19 pandemic forced many colleges to offer virtual classes and limit campus residency, opportunities for the support that membership in an a cappella group once provided could have vanished. Yet many groups found new ways to make music and maintain social ties in this new, mediated world. This essay uses the genre of collegiate a cappella to examine the ways socio-musical practices shifted during the pandemic, utilizing new ethnographic interviews to build on existing research in ethnomusicology and music education. It ultimately concludes that a cappella groups have embraced virtual forms of musicking precisely because of the value they place on the creation and maintenance of community.