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Seven Grand Challenges for Evolutionary Political Psychology or: Political Ideologies as Ad-Hoc Alliances…So What?

David Pietraszewskia Center for Evolutionary Psychology and Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany;b Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Berlin, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 198-204 | Published online: 12 Dec 2023

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