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Carol R. Ember
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 116
Citations - 6165
Carol R. Ember is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Subsistence agriculture & Aggression. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 115 publications receiving 5738 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol R. Ember include Hunter College & City University of New York.
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Cross-Cultural Research Methods
Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses cross-Cultural research, statistics, and methodology in the context of human relations, as well as some of the techniques used in quantitative medicine and social science.
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Children of Different Worlds: The Formation of Social Behavior
Beatrice B. Whiting,Carolyn Pope Edwards,Carol R. Ember,Gerald M. Erchak,Sara Harkness,Robert L. Munroe,Ruth H. Munroe,Sara B. Nerlove,Susan Seymour +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a cross-cultural exploration of the ways in which age, gender, and culture affect the development of social behavior in children and show that knowledge of the company children keep, and of the proportion of time they spend with various categories of people, makes it possible to predict important aspects of their interpersonal behavior.
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Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and humans
Joseph H. Manson,Richard W. Wrangham,James L. Boone,Bernard Chapais,Robin I. M. Dunbar,Carol R. Ember,William Irons,Linda F. Marchant,William C. McGrew,Toshisada Nishida,James D. Paterson,Eric Alden Smith,Craig B. Stanford,Carol M. Worthman +13 more
TL;DR: Examination of comparative data on nonhuman primates and crosscultural study of foraging societies suggests that attacks are lethal because where there is sufficient imbalance of power their cost is trivial, and that it is resources of reproductive interest to males that determine the causes of intergroup aggression.
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Myths about Hunter-Gatherers
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Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War A Cross-Cultural Study
Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that war may be caused mostly by a fear of nature and a partially resultant fear of others, and that a history of unpredictable natural disasters strongly predicts more war, as does socialization for mistrust (but less strongly).