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  • The evolutionary basis of religions is a debated issue. A predominant approach hypothesizes that religious beliefs spread via cultural group selection, notably because they enhance prosocial attitudes and large-scale cooperation. Alternative approaches, based on individual selection, suggest that religiosity is a way for individuals to moralize others so that they adopt a behaviour that is more favorable to their specific reproductive strategy. However, existing studies testing these approaches are limited by sample sizes or methodological problems (notably the ecological fallacy and the interplay between individual and aggregate parameters), and by a systematic lack of test measuring the capacity of the designed models to generalize their predictions to unknown data. The present study overcomes these limitations by applying k-fold cross-validation on multivariate modelling of data from more than 295 000 individuals in 107 countries of the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey. While the cultural group selection predicts a strong association between religiosity and large-scale cooperation, our models rather reveal the opposite association. In WEIRD as well as in non-WEIRD samples, religious people invest less in collective actions, participate less to political activities and are more mistrustful of others. By contrast, we find a strong and positive associations between moralizing and religiosity. (xsd:string)
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