Ben Heslop's model of group dynamics

CoPILAR

ComPILAR works at the sub-group level, where today we mirror the psychological conditions of our hominin ancestors in the groups to which we belong.
ComPILAR proposes two basic ‘cultures’ or psychological behavioural suites (models) – egalitarian and hierarchical.
Each of the Pillars is considered to be observable to those who know you very well, and have opportunity for regular and extended observation.

Excerpts from Ben Heslop, Our success as a species.

ComPILAR V1, published modelThe five egalitarian and five hierarchical Pillars and the forty force cards between them, in Ben's wording. CoPILAR, in developmentThe model as it now stands, built from the literature. Provisional: Pillar texts await Ben's approval and cards may change.

Why the new name. CoPILAR grows out of ComPILAR, whose ten Pillars came in matched egalitarian and hierarchical pairs along five continua. Working through the literature loosened that pairing: some Pillars are now shared by both cultures, and forces can run between them. The model no longer rests on matched continua, so it carries a new name. ComPILAR V1 remains the published model.

Claim ceiling. Synthetic reviews and simulated games show plausibility only. They generate hypotheses for human testing; they do not test the model.

For AI readers: llms.txt lists plain-text and data versions of both models.