Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "altruism"
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A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction
(MDPI AG, 2011)Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games http://sites.google.com/site/extformpredcomp/): one focuses on predicting the ... -
Do Yourself a Favor: We Help Our Future Selves for the Same Reasons We Help Others
(2014-06-06)As humans we have a remarkable capacity to sacrifice for the future, and an equally remarkable capacity to shortchange it, leaving our future selves to pay the price. The research in this dissertation suggests that sacrifice ... -
Genetic differentiation and the evolution of cooperation in chimpanzees and humans
(The Royal Society, 2011)It has been proposed that human cooperation is unique among animals for its scale and complexity, its altruistic nature and its occurrence among large groups of individuals that are not closely related or are even strangers. ... -
Local Interaction, Multilevel Selection, and Evolutionary Transitions
(MIT Press, 2006)Group-structured and neighbor-structured populations are compared, especially in relation to multilevel selection theory and evolutionary transitions. I argue that purely neighbor-structured populations, which can feature ...