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sk taking is important because information regarding why people especially young men take part in high risk activities can help in the development of prevention programs 102 101 reckless driving is a lethal problem among young men in western societies 102 a male who takes a physical risk is sending the message that he has enough strength and skill to survive extremely dangerous activities this signal is directed at peers and potential mates 31 when those peers are criminals or gang members sociologists diego gambetta and james densley find that risk taking signals can help expedite acceptance into the group 103 104 in a study of risk taking some types of risk such as physical or heroic risk for others benefit are viewed more favorably than other types of risk such as taking drugs males and females valued different degrees of heroic risk for mates and same sex friends males valued heroic risk taking by male friends but preferred less of it in female mates females valued heroic risk taking in male mates and less of it in female friends females may be attracted to males inclined to physically defend them and their children males may prefer heroic risk taking by male friends as they could be good allies 101 in western societies voluntary blood donation is a common yet less extreme form of risk taking costs associated with these donations include pain and risk of infection 105 if blood donation is an opportunity to send costly signals then donors will be perceived by others as generous and physically healthy 31 106 in a survey both donors and non donors attributed health generosity and ability to operate in stressful situations to blood donors 106 religion edit further information evolutionary psychology of religion religious rituals such as snake handling may be explainable as costly signals costly religious rituals such as genital modification food and water deprivation and snake handling look paradoxical in evolutionary terms devout religious beliefs wherein such traditions are practiced appear maladaptive 107 religion may have arisen to increase and maintain intragroup cooperation 108 cooperation leads to altruistic behaviour 109 and costly signalling could explain this 31 all religions may involve costly and elaborate rituals performed publicly to demonstrate loyalty to the religious group 110 in this way group members increase their allegiance to the group by signalling their investment in group interests however as group size increases among humans the threat of free riders grows 76 costly signalling theory accounts for this by proposing that these religious rituals are costly enough to deter free riders 111 irons proposed that costly signalling theory could explain costly religious behaviour he argued that hard to fake religious displays enhanced trust and solidarity in a community producing emotional and economic benefits he showed that display signals among the yomut turkmen of northern iran helped to secure trade agreements these ostentatious displays signalled commitment to islam to strangers and group members 112 sosis demonstrated that people in religious communities are four times more likely to live longer than their secular counterparts 77 109 and that these longer lifespans were positively correlated with the number of costly requirements demanded from religious community members 113 however confounding variables may not have been excluded 114 wood found that religion offers a subjective feeling of well being within a community where costly signalling protects against free riders and helps to build self control among committed members 115 iannaccone studied the effects of costly signals on religious communities in a self reported survey as the strictness of a church increased the attendance and contributions to that church increased proportionally in effect people were more willing to participate in a church that has more stringent demands on its members 111 despite this observation costly donations and acts conducted in a religious context does not itself establish that membership in these clubs is actually worth the entry costs imposed despite the experimental support for this hypothesis it remains controversial a common critique is that devoutness is easy to fake such as simply by attending a religious service 116 however the hypothesis predicts that people are more likely to join and contribute to a religious group when its rituals are costly 111 another critique specifically asks why religion there is no evolutionary advantage to evolving religion over other signals of commitment such as nationality as irons admits however the reinforcement of religious rites as well as the intrinsic reward and punishment system found in religion makes it an ideal candidate for increasing intragroup cooperation finally there is insufficient evidence for increase in fitness as a result of religious cooperation 109 however sosis argues for benefits from religion itself such as increased longevity improved health assistance during crises and greater psychological well being 117 although both the supposed benefits from religion and the costly signaling mechanism have been contested 118 language edit some scholars view the emergence of language as the consequence of some kind of social transformation 119 that by generating unprecedented levels of public trust liberated a genetic potential for linguistic creativity that had previously lain dormant 120 121 122 ritual speech coevolution theory views rituals as costly signals that ensures honesty and reliability of language communication 123 124 scholars in this intellectual camp argue that even chimpanzees and bonobos have latent symbolic capacities that they rarely if ever use in the wild objecting to the sudden mutation idea these authors state that even if a chance mutation were to install a language organ in an evolving bipedal primate it would be adaptively useless a very specific social structure one capable of upholding 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