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Published on: January 19, 2019
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Organizational Evidence for an Evolved Hazing Motivation
Aldo Cimino1, Wataru Toyokawa2, Mizuho Komatsu3
1Department of Anthropology, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Abstract:
We report the first cross-cultural and cross-organizational evidence for an evolved hazing motivation. Using experiments performed in the United States, Japan, and among members of a hazing and a nonhazing organization, we demonstrate an invariant set of core hazing predictors. In particular, we show that the perception of near-term group benefits, which would have been ancestrally exploitable by new group members, substantially increases desired hazing severity in all samples. Results are discussed in light of human organizational psychology and the difficulty of reliably suppressing hazing behavior.
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