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The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012) takes a close look at the history of violence in human society, explaining both our motivations to use violence on certain occasions and the factors that increasingly restrain us from using it – and how these factors have resulted in massive reductions in violence.
- Anyone who thinks the world is becoming an increasingly violent place
- Anyone who’s interested in the forces and reasons that drive us to and keep us from violence
- Anyone interested in the history of violence in human societies
Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist with a professorship at Harvard University. His other bestsellers include How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought.
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