The Better Angels in Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes

By D. Bulloch. 2012

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Fundamental motives: How evolutionary needs influence consumer behavior (2013, background): “In fact, our ancestors lived in groups with homicide rates that would make inner-city Detroit or Los Angeles look tame by comparison (Pinker, 2011).”
Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality (2016, background): “However, some of these outcomesmay also be associated with costs, including greater scrutiny and vulnerability to potentially (lethal) challenges, intrigues, and conspiracies if in leadership positions (Anderson & Shirako, 2008; Pinker, 2011) and lower levels of (sexual) relationship exclusivity (Bo”
Unpacking “evil”: Claiming the core of the Dark Triad (2015, background): “For some individuals, in some circumstances (e.g., shortterm interactions), low levels of Honesty–Humility may be adaptive, whereas for other individuals and/or circumstances (e.g., the presence of a Hobbesian Leviathan; Pinker, 2011), those same low levels of Honesty–Humility may not be adaptive.”
Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research (2019, background): “On the scale of human societies, the scope and effectiveness of institutions aimed at promoting cooperation have increased steadily over time (Pinker, 2011).”
Forecasting: theory and practice (2020, background): “…Hayes, 2002; Norton-Taylor, 2015; Richardson, 1948, 1960), falling within the broader discussion about violence (Berlinski, 2009; Goldstein, 2011; Spagat et al., 2009), with the final goal of understanding whether humanity is becoming less belligerent (Pinker, 2011), or not (Braumoeller, 2019).”
Intergroup Schadenfreude: motivating participation in collective violence (2015, unknown): “many more people are killed in interpersonal than in intergroup conflicts [6].”