How the mind sees coalitional and group conflict: The evolutionary invariances of N-person conflict dynamics (2016)
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Abstract
All conflicts involving three or more or agents can be described using a vocabulary of only four interaction types. Analyzing the cost/benefit calculations of each agent's role within these interactions provides a more precise way to describe the decisions involved in multi-agent conflict. This in turn allows for more precise psychological and selection-dynamic models of groups and coalitions to be proposed and tested. A framework for the psychological representation of coalitional conflict is described. The cost/benefit logic of loyalty, attribution, defensive aggression, coalitional narratives, and social identities falls out from this analysis, as does the mind's operational definition of a ???group???.
Bibliographic entry
Pietraszewski, D. (2016). How the mind sees coalitional and group conflict: The evolutionary invariances of N-person conflict dynamics. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 470-480. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.006 (Full text)
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| Publication year | 2016 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
| External URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.006 View | |
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| Keywords: | coalitional psychologycoalitionsconflictgroupswarfare |