Presenter: Nicholas C. Baxter

Faculty Sponsor: Kathleen A. Brown-Perez

School: UMass Amherst

Research Area: Psychology and behavioral sciences

Session: Poster Session 5, 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM, Auditorium, A66

ABSTRACT

This research explores elements of violence that explain its causes. It is violence that ultimately leads to schisms between cultures. Conformity and resistance result from the cultural adaptations to violence in society based on the structural norms that allow violence to happen. These cultures of conformity and resistance lead to tactics of violence that, over time, intensify. Survival adaptations of each culture come from new ways in which their methods can benefit them in the fight to win against their oppressors.