Sex Differences in Intergroup Competition, Aggression, and Warfare

@article{vanvugt2009SexDI,
  title={Sex Differences in Intergroup Competition, Aggression, and Warfare},
  author={mark van vugt},
  journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
  year={2009},
  volume={1167}
}
  • M. van vugt
  • Published 1 June 2009
  • Psychology
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
The social science literature abounds with examples of human tribalism, the tendency to categorize individuals on the basis of their group membership and treat in‐group members benevolently and out‐group members malevolently. I argue that this tribal inclination is an evolved response to the threat of intergroup violence and warfare that was endemic in ancestral human environments (and is still common today). Here I hypothesize that intergroup conflict has profoundly affected the social… 
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