The cultural contagion of conflict

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1589, 2012, Pages 692-703

  Gelfand, Michele ^a   Shteynberg, Garriy ^b   Lee, Tiane ^a   Lun, Janetta ^a   Lyons, Sarah ^a   Bell, Chris ^c   Chiao, Joan Y ^d   Bruss, C Bayan ^a   Dabbagh, May Al ^e   Aycan, Zeynep ^f   Abdel Latif, Abdel Hamid ^g   Dagher, Munqith ^h   Khashan, Hilal ⁱ   Soomro, Nazar ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MOHAMMED BIN RASHID SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT   (United Arab Emirates)

^f KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g Egyptian Research and Training Center   (Egypt)

^h Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies   (Iraq)

ⁱ AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SINDH   (Pakistan)

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Author keywords

Collectivism; Intergroup conflict; Parochial altruism

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL CONFLICT; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; NEUROLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK;

CANADA; MIDDLE EAST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862907720     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0304     Document Type: Article

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