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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2021

Toward a computational theory of social groups: A finite set of cognitive primitives for representing any and all social groups in the context of conflict.

David Pietraszewski

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  11. Children's Reasoning About Empathy and Social Relationships.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023
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  13. Modelling behaviour in intergroup conflicts: a review of microeconomic approaches.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  14. Terrorism as Coalitional Predation: Explaining Definitional Ambiguities and Precautionary Responses.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
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David PietraszewskiCenter for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany davidpietraszewski@gmail.comhttps://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/david-pietraszewski.ORCID 0000-0002-8091-0674

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We don't yet have adequate theories of what the human mind is representing when it represents a social group. Worse still, many people think we do. This mistaken belief is a consequence of the state of play: Until now, researchers have relied on their own intuitions to link up the concept

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CognitionProblem SolvingHumansIntuitionMetaphorCommonsense reasoningcomputational theoryinformation-processingintergroup relationssocial cognitionsocial groupstriadic interactionviolence/aggression

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PMID33902764

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