The Fall of Civilizations
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Chair: James W. Pennebaker, University of Texas at Austin
Speakers: Alex Bentley, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ian Morris, Stanford University, and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
Businesses, communities, and entire civilizations eventually collapse. What are the factors that can destabilize large groups? Are we seeing early signs of this in the west now? What can we as psychological scientists do about it?
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