The book is organised into three overall sections:

 

THE CAUSES AND IMPACT OF POLITICAL CONFLICT

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Chapter 1: The biological and cognitive origins of moral tribes

Chapter 2: Nurturers and Builders in more detail

Chapter 3: What reinforces tribal membership?

Chapter 4: The origins and cost of moral stress

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HOW DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS CREATE MORAL STRESS, AND THE QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE

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Chapter 5: The benefits of balancing core moral values (a look at history)

Chapter 6: How authoritarian systems produce moral stress

Chapter 7: How free democracies produce moral stress

Chapter 8: Quantifying core moral values and moral stress (the proof)

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SOLUTIONS

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Chapter 9: Lowering your personal moral stress

Chapter 10: Solutions for free democracies

Chapter 11: Solutions for poor authoritarian states