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The analytic utility of distinguishing fighting from dying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Ian Grant Hansen
Ian Grant Hansen*
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Department of Behavioral Sciences, York College, City University of New York, New York, NY 11451. ihansen@york.cuny.eduhttps://www.york.cuny.edu/portal_college/ihansen
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Abstract

Fighting and dying, or what Whitehouse calls “out-group hostility” and “extreme self-sacrifice,” are not conceptually overlapping, but in fact are highly distinguishable, both theoretically and empirically. I present empirical evidence from a reanalysis of Ginges et al. (2009, Study 4), demonstrating the potentially inverse relationship between “parochial hostility” – fighting and “sacrificial altruism” – “and” dying.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e204
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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