Most of us intuitively believe that deliberately harming others is immoral. And yet people frequently engage in all kinds of harmful behavior, such as cheating, stealing, and lying, when it is within ...

Researchers at Beijing Normal university and Leiden University have recently carried out a study investigating patterns in neural activity that could be observed in humans during intergroup conflicts ...

Conflict between groups of individuals is a prevalent feature in human societies. A common theoretical explanation for intergroup conflict is that it provides benefits to individuals within groups in ...

You're a customer service expert, a dazzling, on-the-spot numbers cruncher and master problem solver. You don't want to boast, but you're also known for your project management, logic, reasoning and ...

Conflicts across the world between communities, cause high levels of social and physical devastation as well as a large drain in resources, but how can relations be improved? Psychologist Gordon ...

CONFLICTS AMONG people are rife around the world, whether it is the mass murder of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, antisemitism in Europe or violent racism in America. How can these conflicts be ...

A new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests that people around the world are more likely to favor dominant, authoritarian leaders during times of intergroup conflict. Drawing on ...