LEADER 03661nam 22007214a 450 001 9910778221203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15796-5 010 $a9786612157967 010 $a1-4008-2636-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826360 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788464 035 $a(EBL)457897 035 $a(OCoLC)438732540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001524149 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12557136 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001524149 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11495330 035 $a(PQKB)10572874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268892 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11193615 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268892 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241906 035 $a(PQKB)11642566 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36276 035 $a(DE-B1597)446500 035 $a(OCoLC)979834826 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826360 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457897 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312586 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215796 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457897 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788464 100 $a20031203d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWar and human nature$b[electronic resource] /$fStephen Peter Rosen 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11600-8 311 $a0-691-13056-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-203) and index. 327 $aEmotions, memory, and decision making -- Status, testosterone, and dominance -- Stress, distress, and war termination -- Of time, testosterone, and tyrants -- Where do we go from here. 330 $aWhy did President John F. Kennedy choose a strategy of confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis even though his secretary of defense stated that the presence of missiles in Cuba made no difference? Why did large numbers of Iraqi troops surrender during the Gulf War even though they had been ordered to fight and were capable of doing so? Why did Hitler declare war on the United States knowing full well the power of that country? War and Human Nature argues that new findings about the way humans are shaped by their inherited biology may help provide answers to such questions. 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 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. 606 $aWar 606 $aWar$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aWar. 615 0$aWar$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a355.02 686 $a89.76$2bcl 700 $aRosen$b Stephen Peter$f1952-$01567729 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778221203321 996 $aWar and human nature$93839335 997 $aUNINA