regality forum

Any groups with conflicting goals will be hostile to each other and will strengthen the solidarity within their own group. This is a well known phenomenon as demonstrated by the famous 'Robbers Cave experiment'. But workers in a widget factory seeing their business threatened would not necessarily b...

There is regality in certain communist countries. It's not a matter of left or right. It's a matter of how well it fits into the pattern.

It's important to keep science independent of politics. You can't change the definition just to make it fit whatever you don't like.

Some social psychologists talk about 'right-wing authoritarianism' . I think this term is misleading, as I have written in the book, because there are authoritarian left-wing groups as well. Regality is more common among the conservative right, but there are also certain left-wing groups who do not ...

Open access is becoming more and more common, but unfortunately the review is still behind a very high paywall. I am bringing some excerpts here from Carel van Schaik's review: Like it or not, war is a human universal. Not surprisingly, social scientists try hard to understand its causes and consequ...

My book Warlike and peaceful societies is reviewed by Carel van Schaik in the journal Adaptive Behavior , May 2018, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1059712318771975 Van Schaik does a competent job of reviewing the book and he finds the book's argument about the deceptive use of the thre...

Here are some extra illustrations that were not included in the book Warlike and peaceful societies , because the copyright issue could not be resolved, or because of insufficient resolution. Yanomamo dancing (photo by Napoleon Chagnon): http://www.heritagedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon...

I have put a poster and some of the illustrations from the book at he website http://www.regality.info/illustrations/

These illustrations can be shared under a creative commons attribution license CC-BY.

This is a discussion forum for regality theory as defined in the book Warlike and Peaceful Societies by Agner Fog. You can read the book for free at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/657/ . You can find an introduction to regality theory at https://www.regality.info/ . This forum is moderat...