Dr Rohan Kapitany's Outputs (2)

Ritualized Objects: How We Perceive and Respond to Causally Opaque and Goal Demoted Action (2019)
Journal Article
Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. (2019). Ritualized Objects: How We Perceive and Respond to Causally Opaque and Goal Demoted Action. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 19(1-2), 170-194. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340053

Rituals are able to transform ordinary objects into extraordinary objects. And while rituals typically do not cause physical changes, they may imbue objects with a particular specialness - a simple gold band may become a wedding ring, while an ordina... Read More about Ritualized Objects: How We Perceive and Respond to Causally Opaque and Goal Demoted Action.

Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory (2019)
Journal Article
Kapitány, R., Kavanagh, C., Buhrmester, M. D., Newson, M., & Whitehouse, H. (2020). Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory. Self and Identity, 19(3), 293-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2019.1578686

The US Presidential Inauguration is a symbolic event which arouses significant emotional responses among diverse groups, and is of considerable significance to Americans’ personal and social identities. We argue that the inauguration qualifies as an... Read More about Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory.