regality forum

I don't know much about US politics in the 1930s. My best bet is that it depends on whether the crisis is blamed on internal corruption or external enemies, as explained in my book. Hitler successfully put the blame on Jews and other foreigners and minorities. The Nazis staged false flag attacks and...

Bonito wrote: Despite an existential collective threat, no leader emerged above the national level. Why? Big nation states did not exist in the environment of our evolutionary past, this is a new situation that our evolved psychology has not adapted to. The allied forces did not have a strong unifyi...

Bonito wrote: The Allied and Axis powers in WWII were each coalitions, but it seems that neither had an individual leader I am not sure I understand what you mean here. There were coalitions of large countries, each having a leading government. Does this theory apply to humans only, or is there evid...

That's some very relevant questions. The psychological response mechanism behind regality evolved in prehistory by territorial conflicts between tribes or bands, according to my theory. So originally, a group was a tribe or band that monopolized a common territory. Today, it is typically a nation. B...

Searching through the large literature on conflict and peace studies, I find very little mentioning of psychological mechanisms behind bellicosity, radicalization, and escalation. I think that regality theory and other areas of evolutionary psychology can be useful here. In particular, the following...

Group selection theory postulates that natural selection can act not only on individual organisms, but also on groups of animals or humans. Entire groups can go extinct if they are unfit, or a group can produce new daughter groups if the group as such has high fitness. This process can possibly lead...

There is currently (March 2023) a severe conflict in Israel where hundreds of thousands of protesters turn to the streets to protest against a plan by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit the powers of the supreme court. The protesters fear that this plan is a step away from democracy and that...

Here is a new study showing that individual danger and collective danger have very different psychological and cultural effects: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369841671 or https://doi.org/10.1556/2055.2023.00029 This study is based on a large data set from the World Values Survey covering...

illustrations/Afghanistan_flag.png In these days, we are seeing the chaotic scenes of an Afghanistan that is being taken over by the Taliban in just a few days, while US and allied forces are withdrawing from the country. At the same time, Afghans who have worked for the US and allied forces are tr...