%0 Journal Article
%T What war narratives tell about the psychology and coalitional dynamics of ethnic violence
%J Journal of cognition and culture
%D 2019
%A Moncrieff, Michael
%A Lienard, Pierre
%V 19
%N 1-2
%P 1-38
%X 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>
%G en
%I Brill Academic Publishers
%@ 1567-7095
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340046