I didn’t/don’t have time to do the science justice, so I just tried my hand at the esoteric. It was scratching a personal itch, if I get time I might revisit this.
These are tough topics and I can see how it might feel right to just “publish something” rather than sit on one’s hands. I have the same issue myself (minus the courage to just go for it anyway) which leads me mostly to comment rather than top post. My sympathy… you have it!
I didn’t/don’t have time to do the science justice, so I just tried my hand at the esoteric. It was scratching a personal itch, if I get time I might revisit this.
I see below that you’re aiming for something like “fear in political situations,”. This calls to mind, for me, things like the triangle hypothesis, the Richardson arms race model, and less rigorously but clearly in the same ambit also things like confidence building measures.
These are tough topics and I can see how it might feel right to just “publish something” rather than sit on one’s hands. I have the same issue myself (minus the courage to just go for it anyway) which leads me mostly to comment rather than top post. My sympathy… you have it!