Societal threat as a moderator of cultural group selection

Michele J Gelfand¹, Patrick Roos², Dana Nau³, Jesse Harrington⁴, Yan Mu⁵, Joshua Jackson⁶

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¹ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu. www.gelfand.umd.edu
² Miner & Kasch, 334 Scherer Lane, Severna Park, MD 21146. patroos@gmail.com.
³ Department of Computer Science and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. nau@cs.umd.edu. http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/nau.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. jesserh@umd.edu. https://sites.google.com/site/jharringtonumd/.
⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. yanmu@umd.edu.
⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. jjackso1@umd.edu

PMID: 27562612
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000114

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Societal threat as a moderator of cultural group selection

Michele J Gelfand et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan.

. 2016 Jan:39:e38.

doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15000114.

Authors

Michele J Gelfand¹, Patrick Roos², Dana Nau³, Jesse Harrington⁴, Yan Mu⁵, Joshua Jackson⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu. www.gelfand.umd.edu
² Miner & Kasch, 334 Scherer Lane, Severna Park, MD 21146. patroos@gmail.com.
³ Department of Computer Science and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. nau@cs.umd.edu. http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/nau.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. jesserh@umd.edu. https://sites.google.com/site/jharringtonumd/.
⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. yanmu@umd.edu.
⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. jjackso1@umd.edu

PMID: 27562612
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000114

Abstract

As scholars have rushed to either prove or refute cultural group selection (CGS), the debate lacks sufficient consideration of CGS's potential moderators. We argue that pressures for CGS are particularly strong when groups face ecological and human-made threat. Field, experimental, computational, and genetic evidence are presented to substantiate this claim.

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Cultural group selection follows Darwin's classic syllogism for the operation of selection.
Richerson P, Baldini R, Bell AV, Demps K, Frost K, Hillis V, Mathew S, Newton EK, Naar N, Newson L, Ross C, Smaldino PE, Waring TM, Zefferman M. Richerson P, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e58. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15000606. Behav Brain Sci. 2016. PMID: 27561598

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Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence.
Richerson P, Baldini R, Bell AV, Demps K, Frost K, Hillis V, Mathew S, Newton EK, Naar N, Newson L, Ross C, Smaldino PE, Waring TM, Zefferman M. Richerson P, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e30. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1400106X. Epub 2014 Oct 28. Behav Brain Sci. 2016. PMID: 25347943

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