The origins and psychology of human cooperation

J Henrich, M Muthukrishna - Annual review of psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research.

J Hayes, J Schimel, J Arndt, EH Faucher - Psychological bulletin, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Terror management theory (TMT) highlights the motivational impact of thoughts of death in
various aspects of everyday life. Since its inception in 1986, research on TMT has …

Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture

SPL Veissière, A Constant, MJD Ramstead… - Behavioral and brain …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Thirty years of terror management theory: From genesis to revelation

T Pyszczynski, S Solomon, J Greenberg - Advances in experimental social …, 2015 - Elsevier
Terror management theory posits that human awareness of the inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse aspects of human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior …

Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations

JM Tybur, Y Inbar, L Aarøe, P Barclay… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are
nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent …

The social functions of group rituals

RE Watson-Jones, CH Legare - Current Directions in …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Convergent developments across social scientific disciplines provide evidence that ritual is
a psychologically prepared, culturally inherited, behavioral trademark of our species. We …

Environmental contingency in life history strategies: the influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on reproductive timing.

V Griskevicius, AW Delton, TE Robertson… - Journal of personality …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Why do some people have children early, whereas others delay reproduction? By
considering the trade-offs between using one's resources for reproduction versus other …

Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism

M Obaidi, JR Kunst, N Kteily… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived
intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners …

The individual risk assessment of terrorism.

J Monahan - Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
I attempt to identify the central conceptual and methodological challenges that must be
overcome if the risk assessment of terrorism is to make the same progress that in recent …

Can violent protest change local policy support? Evidence from the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riot

RD Enos, AR Kaufman, ML Sands - American Political Science …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Violent protests are dramatic political events, yet we know little about the effect of these
events on political behavior. While scholars typically treat violent protests as deliberate acts …