A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach

Cohen, Lawrence E.; Machalek, Richard

doi:10.1086/229027

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“…Drawing upon previous work (Kenrick, Dantchik & MacFarlane, 1983;MacMillan & Kofoed, 1984;Kofoed & MacMillan, 1986;Harpending & Sobus, 1987;Cohen & Machalek, 1988), Mealey (1995) understands the antisocial or sociopath 2 to be an evolutionarily designed behavioralaffective pattern formulated specifically for exploitative exchanges with the larger population.…”

Section: Antisocial Personality As An Evolved Strategymentioning

confidence: 95%

The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

Hertler¹

2014

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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The five factor trait of conscientiousness is a supertrait, denoting on one hand a pattern of excessive labor, rigidity, orderliness and compulsivity, and on the other hand a pattern of strict rectitude, scrupulosity, dutifulness and morality. In both respects the obsessive-compulsive personality is conscientious; indeed, it has been labeled a disorder of extreme conscientiousness (Widiger et al., 2009). Antisocial personality disorder, in the present paper, is described as occupying the opposite end of the conscientiousness continuum. The antisocial is impulsive rather than compulsive, illicit rather than licit, and furtive rather than forthright.After clinically comparing the obsessive and antisocial personalities, the present paper invokes evolutionary theory to explain their resultant behavioral, ideological, political and demographic differences

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Section: Antisocial Personality As An Evolved Strategymentioning

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The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

Hertler¹

2014

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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“…If one were to dichotomize, it now appears that psychopathic brains cause poor attachment, rather than the reverse (Blair et al 2005). Even before psychopathy was firmly established as organic, heritable, and reproductively competitive (Gutiérrez et al 2013), biological theories steadily accrued through the 1980s (Kenrick et al 1983;MacMillan and Kofoed 1984;Kofoed and MacMillan 1986;Harpending and Sobus 1987;Cohen and Machalek 1988) and continued apace ever since (Wilson et al 1996;Seto, et al 1997;Colman and Wilson 1997;Quinsey 2002;Mokros et al 2008;Walsh and Wu 2008;Brune 2008;Krupp et al 2012). Most recently, the psychopathic complex was recognized as an extreme life history variant, functioning at the fast end of the spectrum McDonald et al 2012;Jonason et al 2012;Jones and Figueredo 2013;Wenner et al 2013), as evidenced by the pursuit of short-term matings, as well as of reduced empathy, altruism, and impulse control .…”

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The Biology of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Symptomatology: Identifying an Extremely K-Selected Life History Variant

Hertler

2015

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Size at birth, growth rate, age at sexual maturity, number and size of offspring, and longevity are among the variables studied in life history evolution, a mid-level branch of evolutionary biology. Long-lived, slow maturing, and highly encephalized Homo sapiens, though skewed as a group towards the very slow end of the spectrum, nevertheless show some life history variation; variation which may relate to, and to some extent explain, personality variation. When applied to extant personality disorders, the risk-taking, boldness, and impulsivity of psychopathy is explained as a fast life history strategy. Herein, it is argued that the highly heritable obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), opposite psychopathy, is a slow life history strategy. Both OCPD and slow life history strategists exhibit anxiety and harm avoidance, risk and loss aversion, future-oriented thought and time urgency, delayed gratification, and conscientious labor and fidelity. In addition to a host of compelling correlations, the preponderance of intrinsic over extrinsic mortality that explains the evolution of slow life histories is precisely that which has been described in an ecological etiology that explains OCPD as a product of post-migration evolution from Africa into Eurasia.

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“…Some studies in the sociological literature explain crimes as an outcome of evolutionary interplay between productive and expropriative strategies, cf. Cohen and Machalek (1988) and Vila and Cohen (1993). 4 Hausman and McPherson (1993) have provided a review of why and how morality influences economic outcomes.…”

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“…This time the indices indicate poorer fit although they are slightly better in the latter period. The decrease in the fit might be due to the fact that we had to impose exactly the same structure for all groups, hence the model does not allow enough variation between the groups 13 . Also note that the vector of β's is forced to be the same across the groups.…”

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Do the catholic and protestant countries differ by their tax morale?

Kanniainen

Pääkkönen

2009

Empirica

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The paper presents a model where illegal shadow production arises from tax evasion. The equilibrium size of the shadow production is determined by consumer moral valuations, possibly affected by the inherited culture or religion. The implications of the model are tested in the OECD data on groups of countries for two regimes 1979-1992 and 1992-2003. Evidence is found on a link between tax morale and shadow markets. No evidence, however, is found to support the view that the tax morale differs between the Catholic South and Protestant North in Europe. The results suggest that the earlier studies have overestimated the size of the shadow economies and that there has been a regime switch in the evolution of the shadow economies during the early 1990s.JEL Classification: C23, D43, H26, L13

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A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach

Cited by 185 publications

References 39 publications

The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

The Biology of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Symptomatology: Identifying an Extremely K-Selected Life History Variant

Do the catholic and protestant countries differ by their tax morale?

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