Tribal Creatures
Journal: The American Journal of Psychology
Year: 2023

Human beings, Aristotle famously observed, are social, or rather political, creatures, which might be the same thing. What this entails has been the object of much study, enough to fill libraries. One branch of psychology, social psychology, is dedicated to finding the right questions to ask and to feeling its way toward answers (see Allport, 1924, for an early mission statement, and Forgas, in press, for later ones). Other social sciences ask similar questions, and collectively they use a wide