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State-Sanctioned Punishment as Substitute for Tribal Vengeance

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  1. Department of Psychology, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

    Quésia F. Cataldo & Damião S. de Almeida Segundo

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

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Cataldo, Q.F., de Almeida Segundo, D.S. (2018). State-Sanctioned Punishment as Substitute for Tribal Vengeance. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2835-1

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