The psychology of offensive and defensive intergroup violence: Preregistered insights from 58 countries

Jonas R. Kunst, Tomasz Besta, Michał Jaśkiewicz, Anna Natalia Gajda, Markus Sanden, Mina Marie Flatebø, Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo, Marios Adonis, Collins Badu Agyemang, Raymond Agyenim Boateng, Serap Arslan Akfirat, Samir Al-adawi, Chiara Ambrosio, Gulnaz Anjum, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Ivars Austers, Oumar Barry, Brock Bastian, Maja Becker, Michael Bender, Nora Cornelia Glerud Benningstad, Islam Borinca, Göksu Celikkol, Jiří Čeněk, Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon, Phatthanakit Chobthamkit, Hoon-Seok Choi, Suyeong Choi, Patricia Ciordas, Ann-Cathrin Coenen, Aleksandra Cupta, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Sandesh Dhakal, Lauren E. Duncan, Tuğçenaz Elcil, Barkan Eskiili, Edgardo Etchezahar, Renata Franc, Silvia Galdi, Magdalena Garvanova, Paul Gill, Augusto Gnisci, Angel Gómez, Talía Gómez Yepes, Igor Grossmann, Emily A. Haines, Fatjona Haka, Boaz Hameiri, Imaduddin Hamzah, Mai Helmy, Roland Imhoff, Shanmukh Kamble, Fiona Kazarovytska, Anna Kende, Narine Khachatryan, Sasha Y. Kimel, Jack W. Klein, Adam Komisarof, David Lacko, Timo Juhani Lajunen, Barbara Lášticová, Claudio López-Calle, Wilson López-López, Barbara Kalebić Maglica, Romualdas Malinauskas, Sona Manusyan, Khatuna Martskvishvili, Gustave Adolphe Messanga, Marta Miklikowska, Jelena Minic, Tamara Mohorić, Francesca Mottola, Silvana Mula, Pasquale Musso, Dieynaba Gabrielle Ndiaye, Félix Neto, Joana Neto, Laina Ngom Dieng, Ihuoma Faith Obioma, Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin, Simon Ozer, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Beata Pastwa-Wojciechowska, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Tomislav Pavlović, Inha Petrovska, Andrzej Piotrowski, Xenia Daniela Poslon, Lotte Pummerer, Mahima Raina, Jano Ramos-Diaz, Vilja Robertsson, Bettina Rottweiler, David L. Sam, Rosa Scardigno, Marion K. Schulmeyer, Anna Stefaniak, Anna Studzinska, Mark J. M. Sullman, Marcin Szulc, Willy Taffo Nemboué, Ergyul Tair, Nicole Tausch, Narendra Singh Thagunna, Emma F. Thomas, Joaquín Ungaretti, Colette Van Laar, Žermēna Vazne, Alexandra Vázquez, Jose Villanueva-Alvarado, Anna Wlodarczyk, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Milan Obaidi

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10.1073/pnas.2535665123
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@article{allodium:10.1073/pnas.2535665123,
  title = {The psychology of offensive and defensive intergroup violence: Preregistered insights from 58 countries},
  author = {Jonas R. Kunst and Tomasz Besta and Michał Jaśkiewicz and Anna Natalia Gajda and Markus Sanden and Mina Marie Flatebø and Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo and Marios Adonis and Collins Badu Agyemang and Raymond Agyenim Boateng and Serap Arslan Akfirat and Samir Al-adawi and Chiara Ambrosio and Gulnaz Anjum and John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta and Ivars Austers and Oumar Barry and Brock Bastian and Maja Becker and Michael Bender and Nora Cornelia Glerud Benningstad and Islam Borinca and Göksu Celikkol and Jiří Čeněk and Trawin Chaleeraktrakoon and Phatthanakit Chobthamkit and Hoon-Seok Choi and Suyeong Choi and Patricia Ciordas and Ann-Cathrin Coenen and Aleksandra Cupta and Piyanjali de Zoysa and Sandesh Dhakal and Lauren E. Duncan and Tuğçenaz Elcil and Barkan Eskiili and Edgardo Etchezahar and Renata Franc and Silvia Galdi and Magdalena Garvanova and Paul Gill and Augusto Gnisci and Angel Gómez and Talía Gómez Yepes and Igor Grossmann and Emily A. Haines and Fatjona Haka and Boaz Hameiri and Imaduddin Hamzah and Mai Helmy and Roland Imhoff and Shanmukh Kamble and Fiona Kazarovytska and Anna Kende and Narine Khachatryan and Sasha Y. Kimel and Jack W. Klein and Adam Komisarof and David Lacko and Timo Juhani Lajunen and Barbara Lášticová and Claudio López-Calle and Wilson López-López and Barbara Kalebić Maglica and Romualdas Malinauskas and Sona Manusyan and Khatuna Martskvishvili and Gustave Adolphe Messanga and Marta Miklikowska and Jelena Minic and Tamara Mohorić and Francesca Mottola and Silvana Mula and Pasquale Musso and Dieynaba Gabrielle Ndiaye and Félix Neto and Joana Neto and Laina Ngom Dieng and Ihuoma Faith Obioma and Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin and Simon Ozer and Penny Panagiotopoulou and Beata Pastwa-Wojciechowska and Vassilis Pavlopoulos and Tomislav Pavlović and Inha Petrovska and Andrzej Piotrowski and Xenia Daniela Poslon and Lotte Pummerer and Mahima Raina and Jano Ramos-Diaz and Vilja Robertsson and Bettina Rottweiler and David L. Sam and Rosa Scardigno and Marion K. Schulmeyer and Anna Stefaniak and Anna Studzinska and Mark J. M. Sullman and Marcin Szulc and Willy Taffo Nemboué and Ergyul Tair and Nicole Tausch and Narendra Singh Thagunna and Emma F. Thomas and Joaquín Ungaretti and Colette Van Laar and Žermēna Vazne and Alexandra Vázquez and Jose Villanueva-Alvarado and Anna Wlodarczyk and Kumar Yogeeswaran and Milan Obaidi},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  doi = {10.1073/pnas.2535665123},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535665123}
}

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TI  - The psychology of offensive and defensive intergroup violence: Preregistered insights from 58 countries
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AU  - Gustave Adolphe Messanga
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AU  - Pasquale Musso
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Kunst, J. R., Besta, T., Jaśkiewicz, M., Gajda, A. N., Sanden, M., Flatebø, M. M., Adebayo, S. O., Adonis, M., Agyemang, C. B., Boateng, R. A., Akfirat, S. A., Al-adawi, S., Ambrosio, C., Anjum, G., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Austers, I., Barry, O., Bastian, B., Becker, M., Bender, M., Benningstad, N. C. G., Borinca, I., Celikkol, G., Čeněk, J., Chaleeraktrakoon, T., Chobthamkit, P., Choi, H., Choi, S., Ciordas, P., Coenen, A., Cupta, A., Zoysa, P. D., Dhakal, S., Duncan, L. E., Elcil, T., Eskiili, B., Etchezahar, E., Franc, R., Galdi, S., Garvanova, M., Gill, P., Gnisci, A., Gómez, A., Yepes, T. G., Grossmann, I., Haines, E. A., Haka, F., Hameiri, B., Hamzah, I., Helmy, M., Imhoff, R., Kamble, S., Kazarovytska, F., Kende, A., Khachatryan, N., Kimel, S. Y., Klein, J. W., Komisarof, A., Lacko, D., Lajunen, T. J., Lášticová, B., López-Calle, C., López-López, W., Maglica, B. K., Malinauskas, R., Manusyan, S., Martskvishvili, K., Messanga, G. A., Miklikowska, M., Minic, J., Mohorić, T., Mottola, F., Mula, S., Musso, P., Ndiaye, D. G., Neto, F., Neto, J., Dieng, L. N., Obioma, I. F., Olonisakin, T. T., Ozer, S., Panagiotopoulou, P., Pastwa-Wojciechowska, B., Pavlopoulos, V., Pavlović, T., Petrovska, I., Piotrowski, A., Poslon, X. D., Pummerer, L., Raina, M., Ramos-Diaz, J., Robertsson, V., Rottweiler, B., Sam, D. L., Scardigno, R., Schulmeyer, M. K., Stefaniak, A., Studzinska, A., Sullman, M. J. M., Szulc, M., Nemboué, W. T., Tair, E., Tausch, N., Thagunna, N. S., Thomas, E. F., Ungaretti, J., Laar, C. V., Vazne, Ž., Vázquez, A., Villanueva-Alvarado, J., Wlodarczyk, A., Yogeeswaran, K., & Obaidi, M. (2026). The psychology of offensive and defensive intergroup violence: Preregistered insights from 58 countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535665123

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