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Pierre Liénard

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2006

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Affiliations

Washington University in St. Louis(Current)

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Aarhus University

Pierre Liénard is an author at Washington University in St. Louis specializing in social sciences, social anthropology, and anthropology.

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Social SciencesSocial AnthropologyEducationAnthropologyBehavioral ScienceCultural AnthropologyCulturePsychologyRitual StudiesSocial Behavior

Publications per year

2006–2020

16

Publications

16

Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2006 · 596 citations

Social Process, Affective Neuroscience, Education +22

Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior

Pierre Liénard, Pascal Boyer · American Anthropologist · 2006 · 296 citations

Selective Transmission, Collective Ritual Sequences, Affective Neuroscience +31

Precaution systems and ritualized behavior

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2006 · 73 citations

Social Process, Education, Psychology +20

Ritual Behavior in Obsessive and Normal Individuals

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2008 · 65 citations

Behavioural Psychology, Cultural Ceremonies, Behavioral Sciences +15

Ingredients of ‘rituals’ and their cognitive underpinnings

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2020 · 48 citations · Full text

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