The Better Angels of Our Nature (English Wikipedia)

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Pinker, Steven (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. New York: Viking. ISBN 9780670022953.

arxiv.org

Taleb, Nassim; Cirillo, Pasquale (June 2016). "On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 452: 29–45. arXiv:1505.04722. Bibcode:2016PhyA..452...29C. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.01.050. S2CID 9716627.

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Lee, Adam (May 11, 2012). "Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature". Big Think. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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Malesevic, Sinisa; Malešević, Siniša (2017-04-13). The Rise of Organised Brutality. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107095625.

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Cederman, Lars-Erik (2003). "Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles". American Political Science Review. 97 (1): 135–150. doi:10.1017/S0003055403000571. ISSN 0003-0554. S2CID 14363844.

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Smith, Jordan Michael (20 October 2011). "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 16 November 2011.

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Taleb, Nassim; Cirillo, Pasquale (June 2016). "On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 452: 29–45. arXiv:1505.04722. Bibcode:2016PhyA..452...29C. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.01.050. S2CID 9716627.
Clauset, Aaron (2018). "Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars". Science Advances. 4 (2): eaao3580. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.3580C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao3580. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5834001. PMID 29507877.
Cunen, Céline; Hjort, Nils Lid; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (2020). "Statistical sightings of better angels: Analysing the distribution of battle-deaths in interstate conflict over time". Journal of Peace Research. 57 (2): 221–234. doi:10.1177/0022343319896843. ISSN 0022-3433.
Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Midlarsky, Manus A. (2013). "Power Laws, Scaling, and Fractals in the Most Lethal International and Civil Wars". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2291166. ISSN 1556-5068.
Friedman, Jeffrey A. (2015). "Using Power Laws to Estimate Conflict Size". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59 (7): 1216–1241. doi:10.1177/0022002714530430. ISSN 0022-0027. S2CID 17588433.
Cederman, Lars-Erik (2003). "Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles". American Political Science Review. 97 (1): 135–150. doi:10.1017/S0003055403000571. ISSN 0003-0554. S2CID 14363844.
Ferguson, R.B. 2013. Pinker’s List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199858996.003.0007 In: Fry, D.P., editor. War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p 112–131.

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"Professor Steven Pinker". University of Edinburgh. 4 August 2016.

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Hart, David Bentley. "The Precious Steven Pinker". First Things. No. January 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2016.

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Taleb, Nassim. "The "Long Peace" is a Statistical Illusion" (PDF).
Taleb, Nassim; Cirillo, Pasquale. "The Decline of Violent Conflicts: What Do The Data Really Say?" (PDF).

foreignpolicy.com

Arquilla, John (December 3, 2012). "The Big Kill". Foreign Policy. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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Cookson, Clive (October 7, 2011). "The Better Angels of Our Nature". Financial Times. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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Taleb, Nassim; Cirillo, Pasquale (June 2016). "On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 452: 29–45. arXiv:1505.04722. Bibcode:2016PhyA..452...29C. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.01.050. S2CID 9716627.
Clauset, Aaron (2018). "Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars". Science Advances. 4 (2): eaao3580. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.3580C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao3580. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5834001. PMID 29507877.

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Boyd, Neil (January 16, 2012). "The Empirical Evidence for Declining Violence". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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"The Decline of Violence". Institute for Art and Ideas. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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Kohn, Marek (October 7, 2011). "The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes, By Steven Pinker". The Independent. UK. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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Herman, Edward S.; Peterson, David. "Steven Pinker on the alleged decline of violence". International Socialist Review. 86. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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Boehm, Christopher (August 22, 2012). "Peace, Violence and the Species: Steven Pinker's 'The Better Angels of Our Nature'". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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"Steven Pinker on violence". Marginal REVOLUTION. October 11, 2011.

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Herman, Edward S.; Peterson, David (September 13, 2012). "Reality Denial: Steven Pinker's Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence".

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Jervis, Robert. "Pinker the Prophet". The National Interest. No. Nov-Dec 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2015. pdf

newyorker.com

Kolbert, Elizabeth (October 3, 2011). "Peace In Our Time: Steven Pinker's History of Violence in Decline". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on August 20, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Clauset, Aaron (2018). "Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars". Science Advances. 4 (2): eaao3580. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.3580C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao3580. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5834001. PMID 29507877.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Clauset, Aaron (2018). "Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars". Science Advances. 4 (2): eaao3580. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.3580C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao3580. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5834001. PMID 29507877.

nytimes.com

Pinker, Steven (October 6, 2011). "The Better Angels of Our Nature". New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
Goldstein, Joshua S.; Pinker, Steven (December 17, 2011). "War Really Is Going Out of Style". New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
Singer, Peter (October 6, 2011). "Is Violence History?". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
Douthat, Ross (October 15, 2011). "Democracy's Collateral Damage". New York Times.
"100 Notable Books of 2011". New York Times. November 21, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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Douthat, Ross (October 17, 2011). "Steven Pinker's History of Violence". New York Times.

opendemocracy.net

Corry, Stephen (June 12, 2013). "The case of the 'Brutal Savage': Poirot or Clouseau?: Why Steven Pinker, like Jared Diamond, is wrong". Open Democracy. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

prospectmagazine.co.uk

Gray, John (September 21, 2011). "Delusions of peace". Prospect. UK. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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"Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 Shortlist Announced". The Royal Society. September 25, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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Friedman, Jeffrey A. (2015). "Using Power Laws to Estimate Conflict Size". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59 (7): 1216–1241. doi:10.1177/0022002714530430. ISSN 0022-0027. S2CID 17588433.

science.org

"Why human society isn't more – or less – violent than in the past". 2017-12-15.

scientificamerican.com

Epstein, Robert (October 7, 2011). "Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Scientific American. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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Taleb, Nassim; Cirillo, Pasquale (June 2016). "On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 452: 29–45. arXiv:1505.04722. Bibcode:2016PhyA..452...29C. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2016.01.050. S2CID 9716627.
Friedman, Jeffrey A. (2015). "Using Power Laws to Estimate Conflict Size". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59 (7): 1216–1241. doi:10.1177/0022002714530430. ISSN 0022-0027. S2CID 17588433.
Cederman, Lars-Erik (2003). "Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles". American Political Science Review. 97 (1): 135–150. doi:10.1017/S0003055403000571. ISSN 0003-0554. S2CID 14363844.

slate.com

Horgan, John (October 3, 2011). "Will War Ever End? Steven Pinker's new book reveals an ever more peaceable species: humankind". Slate. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

spectator.co.uk

Brittan, Samuel (October 22, 2011). "The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes by Stephen Pinker". The Spectator. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

ssrn.com

Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Midlarsky, Manus A. (2013). "Power Laws, Scaling, and Fractals in the Most Lethal International and Civil Wars". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2291166. ISSN 1556-5068.

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Jervis, Robert. "Pinker the Prophet". The National Interest. No. Nov-Dec 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2015. pdf
Pinker, Steven. "Fooled by Belligerence" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
Pinker, Steven (November 2011). "Frequently Asked Questions about The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Archived from the original on October 9, 2012.

telegraph.co.uk

Maddox, Brenda (October 28, 2011). "The Better Angels of our Nature: the Decline of Violence in History and its Causes by Steven Pinker: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
Williams, Rhiannon (1 February 2015). "Mark Zuckerberg's Year of Books: the full list". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved February 2, 2015.

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Shermer, Michael. "Getting Better All the Time". The American Scholar. No. Autumn 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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Gates, Bill (June 18, 2012). "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". The Gates Notes. Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2015.

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Arts, Vanessa Thorpe; correspondent, media (2016-01-31). "Bill Gates recalls rivalry with 'genius' Steve Jobs on Desert Island Discs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-11. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
Runciman, David (September 22, 2011). "The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker - review". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
Radford, Tim (November 19, 2012). "The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
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Gates, Bill (June 18, 2012). "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". The Gates Notes. Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
Pinker, Steven. "Fooled by Belligerence" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
Gray, John (September 21, 2011). "Delusions of peace". Prospect. UK. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
Kolbert, Elizabeth (October 3, 2011). "Peace In Our Time: Steven Pinker's History of Violence in Decline". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on August 20, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
Pinker, Steven (November 2011). "Frequently Asked Questions about The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Archived from the original on October 9, 2012.
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Arts, Vanessa Thorpe; correspondent, media (2016-01-31). "Bill Gates recalls rivalry with 'genius' Steve Jobs on Desert Island Discs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-11. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
Clauset, Aaron (2018). "Trends and fluctuations in the severity of interstate wars". Science Advances. 4 (2): eaao3580. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.3580C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao3580. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 5834001. PMID 29507877.
Cunen, Céline; Hjort, Nils Lid; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv (2020). "Statistical sightings of better angels: Analysing the distribution of battle-deaths in interstate conflict over time". Journal of Peace Research. 57 (2): 221–234. doi:10.1177/0022343319896843. ISSN 0022-3433.
Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Midlarsky, Manus A. (2013). "Power Laws, Scaling, and Fractals in the Most Lethal International and Civil Wars". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2291166. ISSN 1556-5068.
Friedman, Jeffrey A. (2015). "Using Power Laws to Estimate Conflict Size". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 59 (7): 1216–1241. doi:10.1177/0022002714530430. ISSN 0022-0027. S2CID 17588433.
Cederman, Lars-Erik (2003). "Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles". American Political Science Review. 97 (1): 135–150. doi:10.1017/S0003055403000571. ISSN 0003-0554. S2CID 14363844.
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Richardson, Lewis F. (1960). Statistics of deadly quarrels. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Boxwood Press. ISBN 0-910286-10-8. OCLC 6738918.
Braumoeller, Bear F. (2019). Only the dead : the persistence of war in the modern age. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-19-084953-5. OCLC 1060600154.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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