“The percent likelihood of a society being physically violent if it is physically affectionate toward its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent”

— James W. Prescott

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"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

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American psychologist 1930

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

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“Those societies which give their infants the greatest amount of physical affection were characterized by low theft, low infant physical pain, low religious activity, and negligible or absent killing, mutilating, or torturing of the enemy.”

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

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James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)

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