War and Human Nature

"This seminal work by former Defense Department official Stephen Peter Rosen contends that human evolutionary history has affected the way we process the information we use to make decisions. The result is that human choices and calculations may be very different from those predicted by standard models of rational behavior." "This notion is particularly true in the area of war and peace, Rosen contends. Human emotional arousal affects how people learn the lessons of history. For example, stress and distress influence people's views of the future, and testosterone levels play a role in human social conflict. This thought-provoking and timely work explores the understanding of the mind that has emerged from the biological sciences over the last generation. In doing so, it helps shed new light on many persistent puzzles in the study of war."--BOOK JACKET.

המשפט הראשון: THE GREEK HISTORIAN Thucydides analyzed decisions about war and peace over two thousand years ago.

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

Princeton University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

224

ISBN

9780691130569

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata