War's enduring effects on egalitarian motivations and in-group biases

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613493444" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613493444</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613493444" target="_blank" >10.1177/0956797613493444</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

War's enduring effects on egalitarian motivations and in-group biases

Original language description

In suggesting that new nations often coalesce in the decades following war, historians have posed an important psychological question: does the experience of war generate an enduring elevation in people's egalitarian motivations toward their in-group? Weadministered social choice tasks to over a thousand children and adults differentially affected by wars in the Republic of Georgia and Sierra Leone. We find that greater exposure to war creates a lasting increase in egalitarian motivations towards one'sin-group, but not out-groups, during a developmental window that starts in middle childhood (~7 years) and ends in early adulthood (~20 years). Outside this window, war has no measurable impacts on social motivations in young children, and only muted effects on older adults. While "war effects" are broadly consistent with predictions from evolutionary approaches that emphasize the importance of group cooperation against external threats, they also highlight key areas in need of greater

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Psychological Science

ISSN

0956-7976

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

47-57

UT code for WoS article

000329486300005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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