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. 2019 Aug 13:42:e123.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19000888.

Attack versus defense: A strategic rationale for role differentiation in conflict

Catherine Hafer  1
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Attack versus defense: A strategic rationale for role differentiation in conflict

Catherine Hafer. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Is there a strategic mechanism that explains role-contingent differences in conflict behavior? I sketch a theory in which differences in optimal behavior for attackers and defenders arise under initially symmetric conditions through the dynamic accumulation of differences in the distributions of traits in the subpopulations of potential opponents.

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