The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.

How do people feel during extreme collective rituals? Despite longstanding speculation, few studies have attempted to quantify ritual experiences. Using a novel pre/post design, we quantified physiological fluctuations (heart rates) and self-reported affective states from a collective fire-walking r...

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Autores principales:	Ronald Fischer, Dimitris Xygalatas, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Paul Reddish, Penny Tok, Ivana Konvalinka, Joseph Bulbulia
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:07cb18a2f41d4bfda61ab0d940bfe0b02021-11-18T08:31:52ZThe fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0088355https://doaj.org/article/07cb18a2f41d4bfda61ab0d940bfe0b02014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24586315/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203How do people feel during extreme collective rituals? Despite longstanding speculation, few studies have attempted to quantify ritual experiences. Using a novel pre/post design, we quantified physiological fluctuations (heart rates) and self-reported affective states from a collective fire-walking ritual in a Mauritian Hindu community. Specifically, we compared changes in levels of happiness, fatigue, and heart rate reactivity among high-ordeal participants (fire-walkers), low-ordeal participants (non-fire-walking participants with familial bonds to fire-walkers) and spectators (unrelated/unknown to the fire-walkers). We observed that fire-walkers experienced the highest increase in heart rate and reported greater happiness post-ritual compared to low-ordeal participants and spectators. Low-ordeal participants reported increased fatigue after the ritual compared to both fire-walkers and spectators, suggesting empathetic identification effects. Thus, witnessing the ritualistic suffering of loved ones may be more exhausting than experiencing suffering oneself. The findings demonstrate that the level of ritual involvement is important for shaping affective responses to collective rituals. Enduring a ritual ordeal is associated with greater happiness, whereas observing a loved-one endure a ritual ordeal is associated with greater fatigue post-ritual.Ronald FischerDimitris XygalatasPanagiotis MitkidisPaul ReddishPenny TokIvana KonvalinkaJoseph BulbuliaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 2, p e88355 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Ronald Fischer Dimitris Xygalatas Panagiotis Mitkidis Paul Reddish Penny Tok Ivana Konvalinka Joseph Bulbulia The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
description	How do people feel during extreme collective rituals? Despite longstanding speculation, few studies have attempted to quantify ritual experiences. Using a novel pre/post design, we quantified physiological fluctuations (heart rates) and self-reported affective states from a collective fire-walking ritual in a Mauritian Hindu community. Specifically, we compared changes in levels of happiness, fatigue, and heart rate reactivity among high-ordeal participants (fire-walkers), low-ordeal participants (non-fire-walking participants with familial bonds to fire-walkers) and spectators (unrelated/unknown to the fire-walkers). We observed that fire-walkers experienced the highest increase in heart rate and reported greater happiness post-ritual compared to low-ordeal participants and spectators. Low-ordeal participants reported increased fatigue after the ritual compared to both fire-walkers and spectators, suggesting empathetic identification effects. Thus, witnessing the ritualistic suffering of loved ones may be more exhausting than experiencing suffering oneself. The findings demonstrate that the level of ritual involvement is important for shaping affective responses to collective rituals. Enduring a ritual ordeal is associated with greater happiness, whereas observing a loved-one endure a ritual ordeal is associated with greater fatigue post-ritual.
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author	Ronald Fischer Dimitris Xygalatas Panagiotis Mitkidis Paul Reddish Penny Tok Ivana Konvalinka Joseph Bulbulia
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title	The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
title_short	The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
title_full	The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
title_fullStr	The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
title_full_unstemmed	The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
title_sort	fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.
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The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual.

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