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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 367, Issue 1589, Pages 670-679Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0301
Keywords
intergroup conflict; sex differences; evolutionary psychology; prejudice; male warrior
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- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0847237] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The social science literature contains numerous examples of human tribalism and parochialism-the tendency to categorize individuals on the basis of their group membership, and treat ingroup members benevolently and outgroup members malevolently. We hypothesize that this tribal inclination is an adaptive response to the threat of coalitional aggression and intergroup conflict perpetrated by 'warrior males' in both ancestral and modern human environments. Here, we describe how male coalitional aggression could have affected the social psychologies of men and women differently and present preliminary evidence from experimental social psychological studies testing various predictions from the 'male warrior' hypothesis. Finally, we discuss the theoretical implications of our research for studying intergroup relations both in humans and non-humans and discuss some practical implications.
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