Observational analysis identifies social cohesion mechanisms in large communities, suggesting abstraction mitigates conflict.
Human social networks are far larger than those of nonhuman primates. Maintaining cohesion in large networks requires a robust mechanism that can accommodate the dense webs of connections within communities. A parsimonious account of how humans achieve social cohesion is mental abstraction , which enables individuals to construct fuzzy network representations that facilitate information flow tracking and mitigate conflict.
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