Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary ExplanationCooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations. |
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... social psychology of human cooperation— The Chaldeans: history and the community today— Family first: kinship explains most cooperative behavior— Cooperation through reciprocity and reputation—Social norms and prosociality— Culturally ...
... social psychology of human cooperation— The Chaldeans: history and the community today— Family first: kinship explains most cooperative behavior— Cooperation through reciprocity and reputation—Social norms and prosociality— Culturally ...
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... Social Psychology of Human Cooperation 35 4. The Chaldeans: History and the Community Today 75 5. Family First: Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior 89 6. Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation 109 7. Social Norms and ...
... Social Psychology of Human Cooperation 35 4. The Chaldeans: History and the Community Today 75 5. Family First: Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior 89 6. Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation 109 7. Social Norms and ...
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... social norms, and (4) ethnicity. Though we have attempted to present this theoretical material at an introductory level, we believe that more advanced students and scholars will Wnd our synthesis of culture, coevolution, and cooperation ...
... social norms, and (4) ethnicity. Though we have attempted to present this theoretical material at an introductory level, we believe that more advanced students and scholars will Wnd our synthesis of culture, coevolution, and cooperation ...
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... social life and cooperation. SpeciWcally, chapter 5 deals with kinship, chapter 6 with reciprocity and reputation, chapters 7 and 8 with social norms ... society, both locally and globally. The appendices provide more in-depth background ...
... social life and cooperation. SpeciWcally, chapter 5 deals with kinship, chapter 6 with reciprocity and reputation, chapters 7 and 8 with social norms ... society, both locally and globally. The appendices provide more in-depth background ...
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... socially learned by observation and interaction in a social group—social learning can then be understood as the ... norms. Interestingly, although human-reared chimpanzees seem to acquire little from their human families via imitation ...
... socially learned by observation and interaction in a social group—social learning can then be understood as the ... norms. Interestingly, although human-reared chimpanzees seem to acquire little from their human families via imitation ...
Contents
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3 Evolutionary Theory and the Social Psychology of Human Cooperation | 35 |
History and the Community Today | 75 |
Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior | 89 |
6 Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation | 109 |
7 Social Norms and Prosociality | 133 |
8 Culturally Evolved Social Norms Lead to ContextSpecific Cooperation | 157 |
10 Cooperative Dilemmas in the World Today | 205 |
The Underlying Structure of Cooperation | 215 |
Ethnographic Research Methods and Challenges | 219 |
Constructing the Ethnicity and Cooperation Indices | 225 |
Notes | 229 |
References | 241 |
Index | 255 |
InGroup Preferences and Cooperation | 175 |
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