#  Lab Meeting 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 10, 2017** 

 03:30PM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **DeVore Conference Room (MCZ 529)**  



 

 



 

 Tage Rai will join us from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is a Research Associate and Lecturer. Tage will spend part of his time discussing his work on Virtuous Violence (see abstract below). Then he'll workshop a new research direction that he's interested in, thinking about the social ecologies that give rise to different ways of relating.

 **Virtuous Violence** Violence is often considered the antithesis of sociality — people think that violence is the expression of our animal nature, breaking though when learned cultural norms collapse. But an examination of violent acts and practices across cultures and throughout history shows just the opposite. When people hurt or kill someone, they usually do so because they feel they ought to do so: they feel that their violence is morally right or even obligatory, and this attitude is socially enforced. Across several experiments, I show that traditional theories of aggression, based on dehumanization of victims, rational incentives to aggress, or failures of self-control, cannot explain or predict moral violence. Rather, to fully understand violence, we must begin by reconsidering why people ever want to hurt someone in the first place.

 

 



 

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