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Groups in Mind: The Coalitional Roots of War and Morality
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“The behaviour of individuals living in communities is regulated by moral norms and values 158-162 .”
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“Coordinated punishment is possible due to mental adaptations for the detection and coordination of alliances described by Tooby and Cosmides (2010: 210-211), e.g. the representation of others' formidability and their social support (Pietraszewski, 2021).”
From Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality (2026) · cites this paper as Tooby & Cosmides, 2010
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“Although pre-natal and early learning surely influenced these results (Heyes, 2018: 64), it is likely that they indicate a predisposition for a coalitional psychology (Bloom, 2013: 109-111;Tooby & Cosmides, 2010), which interprets language as a cultural indicator of group-boundaries.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L.
- Venue
- Human Morality and Sociality
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 191-234
- OpenAlex
- W13376157
- Cited by
- 363
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
- 2026: 32 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 48.18
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- coalitions, war, morality, group identity, collective action, political violence, social psychology of war
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