Reasons to strike first

William Buckner; Luke Glowacki

doi:10.1017/S0140525X19000840

Reasons to strike first

William Buckner, Luke Glowacki

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De Dreu and Gross predict that attackers will have more difficulty winning conflicts than defenders. As their analysis is presumed to capture the dynamics of decentralized conflict, we consider how their framework compares with ethnographic evidence from small-scale societies, as well as chimpanzee patterns of intergroup conflict. In these contexts, attackers have significantly more success in conflict than predicted by De Dreu and Gross's model. We discuss the possible reasons for this disparity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e119
Journal	The Behavioral and brain sciences
Volume	42
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19000840
State	Published - Aug 13 2019

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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