Moralizing gods and armed conflict
| Autor: | Ahmed Skali |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Ethnic group Armed conflict 02 engineering and technology Criminology Morality Collective action Evolutionary psychology 0502 economics and business Conflict resolution Conflict resolution research Belief system Sociology 050207 economics Social science Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Psychology. 63:184-198 |
| ISSN: | 0167-4870 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joep.2017.01.009 |
| Popis: | This study documents a robust empirical pattern between moralizing gods, which prescribe fixed laws of morality, and conflict prevalence and fatalities, using spatially referenced data for Africa on contemporary conflicts and ancestral belief systems of individual ethnic groups prior to European contact. Moralizing gods are found to significantly increase conflict prevalence and casualties at the local level. The identification strategy draws on the evolutionary psychology roots of moralizing gods as a solution to the collective action problem in pre-modern societies. A one standard deviation increase in the likelihood of emergence of a moralizing god increases casualties by 18–36% and conflict prevalence by 4–8% approximately. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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