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Societal threat as a moderator of cultural group selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Michele J. Gelfand ,
Patrick Roos ,
Dana Nau ,
Jesse Harrington ,
Yan Mu  and
Joshua Jackson
Michele J. Gelfand
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu yanmu@umd.edu jesserh@umd.edu jjackso1@umd.edu www.gelfand.umd.edu https://sites.google.com/site/jharringtonumd/
Patrick Roos
Affiliation:
Miner & Kasch, 334 Scherer Lane, Severna Park, MD 21146. patroos@gmail.com
Dana Nau
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. nau@cs.umd.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/nau
Jesse Harrington
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu yanmu@umd.edu jesserh@umd.edu jjackso1@umd.edu www.gelfand.umd.edu https://sites.google.com/site/jharringtonumd/
Yan Mu
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu yanmu@umd.edu jesserh@umd.edu jjackso1@umd.edu www.gelfand.umd.edu https://sites.google.com/site/jharringtonumd/
Joshua Jackson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu yanmu@umd.edu jesserh@umd.edu jjackso1@umd.edu www.gelfand.umd.edu https://sites.google.com/site/jharringtonumd/
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Abstract

As scholars have rushed to either prove or refute cultural group selection (CGS), the debate lacks sufficient consideration of CGS's potential moderators. We argue that pressures for CGS are particularly strong when groups face ecological and human-made threat. Field, experimental, computational, and genetic evidence are presented to substantiate this claim.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e38
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