@article{ref1,
title="What war narratives tell about the psychology and coalitional dynamics of ethnic violence",
journal="Journal of cognition and culture",
year="2019",
author="Moncrieff, Michael and Lienard, Pierre",
volume="19",
number="1-2",
pages="1-38",
abstract="Models of ethnic violence have primarily been descriptive in nature, advancing broad or particular social and political reasons as explanations, and neglecting the contributions of individuals as decision-makers. Game theoretic and rational choice models recognize the role of individual decision-making in ethnic violence. However, such models embrace a classical economic theory view of unbounded rationality as utility-maximization, with its exacting assumption of full informational access, rather than a model of bounded rationality, modeling individuals as satisficing agents endowed with evolved domain-specific competences. A newer theoretical framework hypothesizing the existence of a human coalitional psychology, an evolved domain of competence, allows us to make sense of core features of memorial narratives about ethnic violence. Qualitative data from the interviews of fifty-seven participants who were impacted by the Croatian Homeland War support expectations entailed by a coalitional psychology model of ethnic strife.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1567-7095",
doi="10.1163/15685373-12340046",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340046"
}