Researchers Reduce the Secret of Life--or, at Least, of Conflict--to a Simple Formula.

MATHEMATICAL models; SOCIAL conflict; HUMAN behavior research; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; JOHNSON, Neil F., 1961-; HORGAN, John G.; MATHEMATICAL models of social sciences

The article reports on research in the article "Simple Mathematical Law Benchmarks Human Confrontations" by a team including professors Neil F. Johnson and John G. Horgan in the November 2013 issue of the journal "Scientific Reports." It is said that the paper includes a mathematical formula that purported fits the statistical likelihood of events related to to the U.S. War on Terror and other instances of human conflict or violence.