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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Group Identities in Conflicts [PDF]
, 2011 We analyze the interplay of group identity and inter-group conflict in a contest where each of two conflicting groups can develop either a group or an individualistic identity.
Kolmar, Martin, Wagener, Andreas
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Who’s afraid of Perfectionist Moral Enhancement? A Reply to Sparrow [PDF]
, 2020 Robert Sparrow recently argues that state-driven moral bioenhancement is morally problematic because it inevitably invites moral perfectionism. While sharing Sparrow’s worry about state-driven moral bioenhancement, I argue that his anti-perfectionism ...
Huang, Pei‐hua
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Visionaries and Crackpots, Maniacs and Saints: Existential Risk and the Politics of Longtermism
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 268-278, December 2025.ABSTRACT Despite advancing strong claims about our collective priorities, longtermism has received little attention in debates in political philosophy. I first provide an account of longtermism that highlights the way it departs from established work on intergenerational justice.
Alex McLaughlin
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1417-1436, November 2025.Abstract We analyze the development of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago as the product of a new kind of urban growth machine—a nonprofit‐led neoliberal growth machine. Building on studies of nonprofit‐led urban development as well as research on CBA‐driven opposition, we reconstruct how an Obama Foundation‐led growth machine was able to ...
Virginia Parks +2 more
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Morality in intergroup conflict [PDF]
, 2015 Intergroup conflict encompasses a broad range of situations with moral relevance. Researchers at the intersection of social and moral psychology employ diverse methodologies, including surveys, moral dilemmas, economic games, and neuroimaging, to study ...
Atran +45 more
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Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe
European Journal of Political Research, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1783-1804, November 2025.Abstract How do welfare systems affect natives' attitudes to immigration? The impact of immigration on public support for welfare and redistribution has received considerable scholarly attention, but we know much less about how welfare policies shape citizens' views about immigration.
ALINA VRÂNCEANU, BILYANA PETROVA
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Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery
Disasters, Volume 49, Issue 4, October 2025.Abstract Faith and faith communities play a critical role in post‐disaster recovery for at least three reasons. First, faith is a socially shared frame through which individuals understand a disaster and evaluate potential means of recovery. Second, faith is a driver or motivator of post‐disaster recovery, providing inspiration, encouragement, and ...
Virgil Henry Storr +2 more
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A computational framework for modelling inter-group behaviour using psychological theory [PDF]
, 2018 Psychological theories of inter-group behaviour offer justified representations for interaction, influence, and motivation for coalescence. Agent-based modelling of this behaviour, using evolutionary approaches, further provides a powerful tool to ...
Bellamy, Rachel +9 more
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In‐Group Versus Out‐Group Preferences in Intergroup Conflict: An Experiment
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 5, October 2025.ABSTRACT In group conflicts, individuals often have diverse preferences, such as maximizing personal payoff, maximizing the group's payoff, or defeating rivals. When these preferences coexist, isolating their impact on conflict outcomes becomes challenging.
Subhasish M. Chowdhury +2 more
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