Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships

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The Making of Violent Extremists (2018, result): “In line with other authors, we dismiss the myth of violence as irrational and pathological, and see most of its instances as morally motivated and serving strongly held values (e.g., Fiske & Rai, 2014; Ginges, Atran, Medin, & Shikaki, 2007).”
Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire (2018, background): “But, unlike MAC, RMT does not derive its domains from any underlying theory of cooperation, and proposes only four: Unity, Hierarchy, Equality and Proportionality (Fiske & Rai, 2014; Rai & Fiske, 2011).4 Unlike MAC, RMT’s domain of Unity does not distinguish between family and group; Hierarchy does ”
Designing and Applying an ‘Extremist Media Index’ (2015, background): “As Alan Fiske and Tage Rai noted in their construction of ‘virtual violence theory’, notions of just violence ‘that in one culture or in one historical epoch are moral may be immoral in another culture or in another historical epoch’ [12].”
Intergroup Schadenfreude: motivating participation in collective violence (2015, background): “Instead, people who are highly identified with the group deliberately choose to endorse or do harm because they believe it is the right thing to do [8,32].”