Economic agents are not always rational or farsighted and can make decisions according to
simple behavioral rules that vary according to situation and can be studied using the tools of …

We take an evolutionary perspective to explore the implications of different relationships
between power and initiation of conflicts (ie, conflict initiation function) for the long-run …

What are political thinkers doing with their words when they write a text, engage in a debate,
or give a speech? We propose a" computational political theory", pairing recent …

Can religiosity alter societal propensity for large-scale organized violence? We introduce
annual religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the shares …

Is humanity's circle of moral concern expanding, as often claimed? I explore frequencies of
morally universal language in 15m book publications in American English, British English …

Can religiosity alter a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce
two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with …

The share of ethno-cultural minorities is growing in world metropolises, thereby aecting
intergroup relationships and altering ethno-cultural hierarchies. Some empirical studies …

We consider an evolutionary model of social coordination in a 2× 2 game where two groups
of players prefer to coordinate on different actions. Players can pay a cost to learn their …

We study the problem of stochastic stability for evolutionary dynamics under the logit choice
rule. We consider general classes of coordination games, symmetric or asymmetric, with an …

This chapter changes the perspective from the individual to the social level. Starting from
binary and small-group interaction, inequality-generating mechanisms are traced through …