Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Cooperation"
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Causes and Consequences of Cooperative Construction in the Mice Mus spicilegus and Peromyscus polionotus
(2013-03-14)The cooperative construction of shared dwellings is a phylogenetically-widespread evolutionary puzzle. Shared shelters are common goods – all individuals in the shelter benefit, at the expense of those individuals that ... -
Cross-Cultural Sex Differences in Post-Conflict Affiliation following Sports Matches
(Elsevier BV, 2016)The nature of ancestral human social structure and the circumstances in which men or women tend to be more cooperative are subjects of intense debate. The male warrior hypothesis proposes that success in intergroup contests ... -
Differences in cognitive processes underlying the collaborative activities of children and chimpanzees
(Elsevier BV, 2012)We compared the performance of 3- and 5-year-old children with that of chimpanzees in two tasks requiring collaboration via complementary roles. In both tasks, children and chimpanzees were able to coordinate two complementary ... -
The Evolution and Development of Inequity Aversion
(2013-10-08)Humans show such strong sensitivity to whether resources are distributed fairly that they sacrifice personal gain to avoid distributional inequity. This inequity aversion plays an important role in guiding human social ... -
Parallelism and Epistasis in the de novo Evolution of Cooperation between Two Species
(2014-06-06)Resolving the genetic and mechanistic bases of complex biological behaviors remains a central challenge in the post-genomic era. Among these is the emergence of interspecies cooperation, a feature common across levels of ... -
Pushing a Troika of Development: Promoting Investment, Curbing Corruption, and Enhancing Public Good Provision
(2013-03-15)In recent decades, a new direction of development economics has emerged, led by economists on a mission to improve the quality of life for citizens of developing countries through proven, cost-effective interventions. This ... -
The Cultural Evolution of Political Institutions
(2022-05-02)Humans, uniquely among organisms, rely on norms, or socially learned rules of behavior enforced by a community. Norms, and institutions, or packages of norms, are a major determinant of human ecological success. My ... -
The Interplay of Firm Positioning and Firm Resources
(2021-07-12)How do firm positioning and resources dynamically interact in the context of competition? The literature on competitive strategy has extensively studied positioning-based and resource-based strategies but the interplay ... -
Young children proactively remedy unnoticed accidents
(Elsevier BV, 2013)Human adults will sometimes help without being asked to help, including in situations in which the helpee is oblivious to the problem and thus provides no communicative or behavioral cues that intervention is necessary. ...