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Ritualized behavior as a domain-general choice of actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Hongbin Wang  and
Paul Bello
Hongbin Wang*
Affiliation:
School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030 http://www.shis.uth.tmc.edu
Paul Bello*
Affiliation:
Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome, NY 13441 http://www.pbello.com
*
Hongbin.Wang@uth.tmc.edu
Pello.Bello@rl.af.mil
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Abstract

Although we agree that ritualized behavior is a mystery that calls out for an explanation, we do not think that the proposed domain-specific two-component system offers an empirically well-justified and theoretically parsimonious description of the phenomena. Instead, we believe that the deployment of domain-general mechanisms based on choice of actions could also explain the essential features of ritualized behavior.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 633 - 634
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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