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Nations as Natural Families: From Kin Selection to Multilevel Selection
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 91-102, January 2026.ABSTRACT In nationalism studies, nations are often viewed as artificial constructs. By contrast, many sociobiologists see nations as natural families or kin groups. They explain altruism and shared ancestry among co‐nationals through kin selection theory, which accounts for altruism towards close genetic relatives. In this article, we refine and deepen
Filipe Nobre Faria, Sandra Dzenis
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When Rituals Fail: Rationalization, Bayesianism, and Predictive Processing
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Why do rituals persist in human societies despite their frequent and observable failures to produce intended outcomes? This paper advances a two‐part argument to explain this resilience. First, at the individual level, I argue that belief in ritual efficacy is maintained through Bayesian‐rational processes, where the invocation of auxiliary ...
Ze Hong
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Consumer Ethnocentrism and Its Relation with Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism Characteristics Among Students of University of Isfahan [PDF]
مدیریت بازرگانی, 2009 Consumer ethnocentrism as an important factor in consumers’ buying decisions of local or imported products has been the topic of so many researches. For this reason the present study by taking 230 students of University of Isfahan as its statistical ...
Bahram Ranjbarian +1 more
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Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 9260-9278, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study, grounded in consumer culture theory, examines how quality‐of‐life, consumer responsibility for sustainable consumption, and ethnocentrism influence local brand preference. Moving beyond national wealth metrics, it explores regional disparities in quality‐of‐life using a representative sample of 2589 Spanish consumers and official ...
Pilar Lopez‐Belbeze +2 more
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Review of the theoretical and empirical literature of consumer ethnocentrism [PDF]
Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2015 This article presents an analysis of the concept of consumer ethnocentrism measured by the researchers with the use of the Consumer Ethnocentric Tendencies Scale (CETSCALE) developed by Shimp and Sharma in 1987.
Stamule Stere, Bora Trajani
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Introduction: Beyond public reason Introduction : Par‐delà la raison publique
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 965-983, December 2025.This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race,
Charis Boutieri +2 more
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Consumer Ethnocentrism In Ms Region
, 2014 This article deals with consumer ethnocentrism in the Moravian-Silesian region in the Czech Republic. Research was focused on finding out how strong consumer ethnocentrism is in the region and how it depends on demographic factors. The used method is CETSCALE and the data were obtained by questionnaire survey, analyzed by IBM SPSS.
M. Stoklasa, H. Starzyczna, L. Zotykova
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Consumers Become More or Less Ethnocentric? A Meta-Analysis on Level of Consumer Ethnocentrism
International Journal of Business and Management, 2017 A huge body of research on consumer ethnocentrism has occurred in cross-cultural consumer behavior research area since the seminal work of Shimp and Sharma (1987). There is, however, a research gap on meta-analysis of the level of consumer ethnocentrism.
Gongxing Guo, Quan Lin
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Survey of Strategic Pattern of Psychosocial Factors the Clothing Industry and their Impact on Ethnocentrism [PDF]
مطالعات مدیریت راهبردی, 2017 In modern competitive marketing for producers the situation has become harder to compete with other countries’ goods and survive in the markets. Although a large part of competiveness relies on tangible features but Consumer Ethnocentrism is one of ...
Salman Evazi +2 more
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The impact of religious affiliation on trust in the context of electronic commerce [PDF]
, 2004 There is currently a growing literature on the role that trust plays in encouraging consumers to engage in e-commerce transactions. Various models have been proposed which aim to identify both the antecedents and outcomes of trust displayed towards e ...
Hone, KS, O'Keefe, RM, Siala, H
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