Coordinated policy action and flexible coalitional psychology: How evolution made humans so good at politics

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 43, Issue , 2017, Pages 89-99

  Leech, Beth L ^a   Cronk, Lee ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Alliances; Coalitional psychology; Coalitions; Cultural group selection; Strange bedfellows

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AGENDA SETTINGS; ALLIANCES; COALITIONAL PSYCHOLOGY; COALITIONS; CULTURAL GROUPS; STRANGE BEDFELLOWS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; NONHUMAN; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEAMWORK; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 85013742714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2017.01.001     Document Type: Article

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