Feeling Threatened Makes Us Nicer
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 12:10
in Health & Medicine
The way we behave when threatened sometimes goes against conventional wisdom: we soften up. Andrew White, a PhD student at Arizona State University, and his colleagues analyzed data from 54 nations and found that the more a nation spent on its military (presumably a good index of perceived threat), the higher its people scored on self-report measures of how agreeable they were to others. [More]