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Using laboratory intergroup conflict and riots as a “stress test”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2022
Abstract
We apply the author's computational approach to groups to our empirical work studying and modelling riots. We suggest that assigning roles in particular gives insight, and measuring the frequency of bystander behaviour provides a method to understand the dynamic nature of intergroup conflict, allowing social identity to be incorporated into models of riots.
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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
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Author response
More “us,” less “them”: An appeal for pluralism – and stand-alone computational theorizing – in our science of social groups