Browsing by Author "Thomas, Kyle"

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    • The Psychology of Common Knowledge: Coordination, Indirect Speech, and Self-Conscious Emotions 

      Thomas, Kyle (2015-05-15)
      The way humans cooperate is unparalleled in the animal kingdom, and coordination plays an important role in human cooperation. Common knowledge—an infinite recursion of shared mental states, such that A knows X, A knows ...

    • The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. 

      Thomas, Kyle Andrew; DeScioli, Peter; Haque, Omar Sultan; Pinker, Steven (American Psychological Association (APA), 2014)
      Research on human cooperation has concentrated on the puzzle of altruism, in which one actor incurs a cost to benefit another, and the psychology of reciprocity, which evolved to solve this problem. We examine the complementary ...