Anthony C Lopez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4134825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony C Lopez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopez |
| SIGNATURE | LOPEZ A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University Vancouver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7330-4337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ordinary mechanisms, extraordinary actions: Explaining the universality and uniqueness of political violence
Political violence is widespread in potential but uneven in expression. I propose a two-level integrative framework that helps explain the capacity for and expression of political violence, derived from the broadening interdisciplinary behavioral science research on violence. The first level of this framework centers on species-typical psychological mechanisms (common across humans) that regulate coalitional dynamics such as moralization, identit…
Christian Conversions and Dutch Colonialism in Minahasa in the Nineteenth Century
The Christianization of Minahasa in the mid-nineteenth century is one of the most dramatic and important turning points in the region’s social and cultural history. The standard argument for these conversions focuses on the vaunted narratives of the pioneering Christian missionaries J.G. Schwarz and J.F. Riedel, who arrived in Minahasa in the 1830s. This essay, however, argues that the unforeseen effects of the liberalisation reforms of the Dutch…
The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: An Empirical Test
Making ‘my’ problem ‘our’ problem: Warfare as collective action, and the role of leader manipulation
The Handbook of Collective Violence: Current Developments and Understanding
This chapter considers prison gangs by outlining definitional challenges that concern this social phenomenon before examining the importance of accounting for the specifics of prison environments. As a consequence, the chapter presents a social eco-system approach to understanding prison gangs, and in doing so, accounts for theories of importation, strain and deprivation, incorporating these into a proposed Gang Social-Ecosystem Model (G-SEM). Ad…
Conditions Required for Evolution of Warfare Adaptations
An Evolutionary Approach to Political Leadership
We combine evolutionary and neurobiological models to provide a theoretically rigorous framework for understanding the origin of political leadership in democratic structures and how such qualities interact with institutional incentives and constraints. Evolutionary, behavioral-genetic, neuropsychological, and physiological studies have identified biological systems related to particular types of leadership behaviors as well as the emergence of l…
The evolution of war: Theory and controversy
The use of evolutionary theory for explaining human warfare is an expanding area of inquiry, but it remains obstructed by two important hurdles. One is that there is ambiguity about how to build an evolutionary theory of human warfare. The second is that there is ambiguity about how to interpret existing evidence relating to the evolution of warfare. This paper addresses these problems, first by outlining an evolutionary theory of human warfare, …
The Hawkish Dove: Evolution and the Logic of Political Behaviour
In a previous issue of this journal, Adam Goodwin (2010) argued that applications of ‘orthodox’ evolutionary theory in international relations are reductionist, necessarily privilege an individualist ontology, and doom social theorising to the false assumption that humans are by nature selfish and competitive. As an alternative, Goodwin presents Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid framework both for overcoming the reductionism of ‘orthodox’ evolutionary theor…
Adaptation, Heritability, and the Emergence of Evolutionary Political Science
Biological approaches to politics have witnessed the emergence of two major strands of research that are related but quite distinct: an “Adaptationist” approach and a “Heritability” approach. The former explains behavior as the product of complex psychological adaptations designed by natural selection that all humans share, while the latter explains behavior as a consequence of heritable genetic differences between individuals. Importantly, neith…
States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics
The use of evolutionary models to examine political behavior in international relations has been the subject of much debate, but serious scholarly work has generally been lacking, in part because the causal mechanisms have not always been clearly explicated. An evolutionary psychological framework can correct this deficit and benefit research in at least three major areas of international relations: (1) how political groups such as states are per…
Adaptation, Heritability, and the Emergence of Evolutionary Political Science
Biological approaches to politics have witnessed the emergence of two major strands of research that are related but quite distinct: an “Adaptationist” approach and a “Heritability” approach. The former explains behavior as the product of complex psychological adaptations designed by natural selection that all humans share, while the latter explains behavior as a consequence of heritable genetic differences between individuals. Importantly, neith…
States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics
The use of evolutionary models to examine political behavior in international relations has been the subject of much debate, but serious scholarly work has generally been lacking, in part because the causal mechanisms have not always been clearly explicated. An evolutionary psychological framework can correct this deficit and benefit research in at least three major areas of international relations: (1) how political groups such as states are per…
An Evolutionary Approach to Political Leadership
We combine evolutionary and neurobiological models to provide a theoretically rigorous framework for understanding the origin of political leadership in democratic structures and how such qualities interact with institutional incentives and constraints. Evolutionary, behavioral-genetic, neuropsychological, and physiological studies have identified biological systems related to particular types of leadership behaviors as well as the emergence of l…
The evolution of war: Theory and controversy
The use of evolutionary theory for explaining human warfare is an expanding area of inquiry, but it remains obstructed by two important hurdles. One is that there is ambiguity about how to build an evolutionary theory of human warfare. The second is that there is ambiguity about how to interpret existing evidence relating to the evolution of warfare. This paper addresses these problems, first by outlining an evolutionary theory of human warfare, …
The Hawkish Dove: Evolution and the Logic of Political Behaviour
In a previous issue of this journal, Adam Goodwin (2010) argued that applications of ‘orthodox’ evolutionary theory in international relations are reductionist, necessarily privilege an individualist ontology, and doom social theorising to the false assumption that humans are by nature selfish and competitive. As an alternative, Goodwin presents Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid framework both for overcoming the reductionism of ‘orthodox’ evolutionary theor…
States in Mind: Evolution, Coalitional Psychology, and International Politics
The use of evolutionary models to examine political behavior in international relations has been the subject of much debate, but serious scholarly work has generally been lacking, in part because the causal mechanisms have not always been clearly explicated. An evolutionary psychological framework can correct this deficit and benefit research in at least three major areas of international relations: (1) how political groups such as states are per…
Adaptation, Heritability, and the Emergence of Evolutionary Political Science
Biological approaches to politics have witnessed the emergence of two major strands of research that are related but quite distinct: an “Adaptationist” approach and a “Heritability” approach. The former explains behavior as the product of complex psychological adaptations designed by natural selection that all humans share, while the latter explains behavior as a consequence of heritable genetic differences between individuals. Importantly, neith…
The Hawkish Dove: Evolution and the Logic of Political Behaviour
In a previous issue of this journal, Adam Goodwin (2010) argued that applications of ‘orthodox’ evolutionary theory in international relations are reductionist, necessarily privilege an individualist ontology, and doom social theorising to the false assumption that humans are by nature selfish and competitive. As an alternative, Goodwin presents Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid framework both for overcoming the reductionism of ‘orthodox’ evolutionary theor…
The evolution of war: Theory and controversy
The use of evolutionary theory for explaining human warfare is an expanding area of inquiry, but it remains obstructed by two important hurdles. One is that there is ambiguity about how to build an evolutionary theory of human warfare. The second is that there is ambiguity about how to interpret existing evidence relating to the evolution of warfare. This paper addresses these problems, first by outlining an evolutionary theory of human warfare, …
Conditions Required for Evolution of Warfare Adaptations
An Evolutionary Approach to Political Leadership
We combine evolutionary and neurobiological models to provide a theoretically rigorous framework for understanding the origin of political leadership in democratic structures and how such qualities interact with institutional incentives and constraints. Evolutionary, behavioral-genetic, neuropsychological, and physiological studies have identified biological systems related to particular types of leadership behaviors as well as the emergence of l…
Making ‘my’ problem ‘our’ problem: Warfare as collective action, and the role of leader manipulation
The Handbook of Collective Violence: Current Developments and Understanding
This chapter considers prison gangs by outlining definitional challenges that concern this social phenomenon before examining the importance of accounting for the specifics of prison environments. As a consequence, the chapter presents a social eco-system approach to understanding prison gangs, and in doing so, accounts for theories of importation, strain and deprivation, incorporating these into a proposed Gang Social-Ecosystem Model (G-SEM). Ad…
Christian Conversions and Dutch Colonialism in Minahasa in the Nineteenth Century
The Christianization of Minahasa in the mid-nineteenth century is one of the most dramatic and important turning points in the region’s social and cultural history. The standard argument for these conversions focuses on the vaunted narratives of the pioneering Christian missionaries J.G. Schwarz and J.F. Riedel, who arrived in Minahasa in the 1830s. This essay, however, argues that the unforeseen effects of the liberalisation reforms of the Dutch…
The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: An Empirical Test
Ordinary mechanisms, extraordinary actions: Explaining the universality and uniqueness of political violence
Political violence is widespread in potential but uneven in expression. I propose a two-level integrative framework that helps explain the capacity for and expression of political violence, derived from the broadening interdisciplinary behavioral science research on violence. The first level of this framework centers on species-typical psychological mechanisms (common across humans) that regulate coalitional dynamics such as moralization, identit…
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works)