Implicazioni per le origini evolutive e la funzionalità adattiva delle religioni di Gliberto Corbellini Sapienza - Università di Roma Convegno "Le neuroscienze incontrano le altre discipline" 4 maggio 2011 Padova, Palazzo del Bo Il convegno è promosso dall’Università di Padova e dal Dipartimento di Psicologia generale della stessa università, con il sostegno della Fondazione Sigma Tau e della Fondazione Giannino Bassetti.

1. Correlati neurali della religiosità e della credenze religiose: implicazioni per le origini evolutive e la funzionalità adattativa delle religioni Gilberto Corbellini Sapienza – Università di Roma

4. PNAS 106 (12), 2009: 4876-4881

6. Religiosity traits correlate (in ways which are context dependent) with less health problems (more often mental health problems related to anxiety) and the activation of some neural correlates of religiosity seems to improve individual pain management

7. There is an immense amount of data on this subject, and it indicates conclusively that religious people really are happier and better off emotionally that their secular counterparts p. 43

8. … among young adults, the relationship between internalized, personal devotion and life satisfaction and between personal fulfillment through prayer and meditation occurs through the influence of social support and optimism. … religiousness and spirituality are both multidimensional constructs, and these dimensions will demonstrate different patterns of relationships depending on the dimension assessed and the outcome of interest. For example, extrinsic religiousness was not significantly associated with psychological distress or with satisfaction with life. In contrast, intrinsic religiousness and prayer fulfillment were significantly associated with satisfaction with life.

12. Stress Osteoarthritis Fractures Congenital deformations Neoplasms Chronic infections Clinical appearances of illness, together with the causes of diseases, as relevant selective factors, that likely contribute to the shaping of hunter-gathers behavioral traits. Disease, pain and suffering in human evolution

14. The costly signaling theory of religion … performing a ritual indexicallly signals the acceptance of the moral values implicit in the ritual but also signals belief in the doctrines that support and provide meaning for the ritual. … supernatural beliefs are proximate mechanims that facilitate the efficient functioning of religious signals.

16. Whether religiosity and religious believes were functional in the Paleolithic physical and socio-cultural environments, maybe a mismatch could be the remote cause of the social and individual deleterious effects of religions in post-agricultural and modern societies