TY - JOUR

T1 - An existential perspective on the psychological function of shamans

AU - Schindler, Simon

AU - Greenberg, Jeff

AU - Pfattheicher, Stefan

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - Shamans deal with events that involve the threat of death. They help buffer death anxiety because, through their claimed supernatural abilities, they can provide both hope for averting death and evidence for existence of a spirit world offering continuance beyond death. Thus, managing the threat of mortality probably played a major role in the development and maintenance of shamanism.

AB - Shamans deal with events that involve the threat of death. They help buffer death anxiety because, through their claimed supernatural abilities, they can provide both hope for averting death and evidence for existence of a spirit world offering continuance beyond death. Thus, managing the threat of mortality probably played a major role in the development and maintenance of shamanism.

KW - Psychology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065795028&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/dff4b59c-bffd-38c9-896f-c4d319a2a8a8/

U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X17002163

DO - 10.1017/S0140525X17002163

M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports

C2 - 31064473

AN - SCOPUS:85065795028

VL - 41

JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

SN - 0140-525X

M1 - e85

ER -