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Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners
2.2.1 Reciprocation and punishment in the TGP. Before the TGP, participants were told that they were going to be given points that could be used during the interaction. They were asked to imagine that the points they earned would be converted to real money at the end of the study. In the TGP, participants experienced both roles, truster and responder (order counterbalanced across participants).
Tooby and Cosmides' response to Gould
John Tooby and Leda Cosmides Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UCSB July 7, 1997 Letter to the Editor of The New York Review of Books on Stephen Jay Gould's "Darwinian Fundamentalism" (June 12, 1997) and "Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism" (June 26, 1997) John Maynard Smith, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, recently summarized in the NYRB the sharply conflicting assessments of Stephen Jay Gould: "Because of the excellence of his essays, he has come to be seen by...
Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest
Abstract Kin–recognition systems have been hypothesized to exist in humans, and adaptively to regulate altruism and incest avoidance among close genetic kin. This latter function allows the architecture of the kin recognition system to be mapped by quantitatively matching individual variation in opposition to incest to individual variation in developmental parameters, such as family structure and co–residence patterns.
Groups in mind : the coalitional roots of war and morality
War is older than the human species. It is found in every region of the world, among all the branches of humankind. It is found throughout human history, deeply and densely woven into its causal tapestry. It is found in all eras, and in earlier periods no less than later. There is no evidence of it having originated in one place, and spread by contact to others. War is reflected in the most fundamental features of human social life.
Jungle Fever
Did two U.S. scientists start a genocidal epidemic in the Amazon, or was The New Yorker duped? To read a reponse to this article from the editors of The New Yorker, click here. Lately I’ve been engrossed in—and in some sense involved in—the most sensational scandal to emerge from academia in decades. The scandal erupted last month when two anthropologists, Terry Turner and Leslie Sponsel, sent a searing letter to the president of the American Anthropological Association.
Formidability and the logic of human anger
Abstract Eleven predictions derived from the recalibrational theory of anger were tested. This theory proposes that anger is produced by a neurocognitive program engineered by natural selection to use bargaining tactics to resolve conflicts of interest in favor of the angry individual.
6 Important Evolutionary Psychology Books
Bright ideas and great writing on love, alliances, conflict, and development. Posted Dec 02, 2015 Source: Artem Bali / Pexels 1. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker This must read looks at the concepts of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine in an exploration of morals, emotions, and politics. 2.
Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved June 21, 2017 (received for review March 7, 2017) Significance Markets have lifted millions out of poverty, but considerable inequality remains and there is a large worldwide demand for redistribution.
Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures
Significance Prominent theories of shame hold that shame is inherently maladaptive. However, direct tests of the fit between shame and its probable target domain have not previously been conducted. Here we test the alternative hypothesis that shame, although unpleasant (like pain), serves the adaptive function of defending against the social devaluation that results when negative information reaches others—by deterring actions that would lead to more devaluation than benefits, for example.
6 Important Evolutionary Psychology Books
Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate Source: Flickr 1. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker This must read looks at the concepts of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine in an exploration of morals, emotions, and politics. 2.
Meeting now suggests we will meet again: Implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation
Abstract Humans are often generous, even towards strangers encountered by chance and even in the absence of any explicit information suggesting they will meet again. Because game theoretic analyses typically conclude that a psychology designed for direct reciprocity should defect in such situations, many have concluded that alternative explanations for human generosity—explanations beyond direct reciprocity—are necessary.
Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice
1. Introduction Multiple converging lines of evidence indicate that the ability to fight has been a powerful selective force acting on human males over evolutionary time. Males have been shown to set thresholds for acceptable resource division (i.e. welfare trade-off ratios; see Tooby et al. 2008) based partly on physical strength: stronger men are more prone to anger (Archer & Thanzami 2007; Sell et al. 2009b).
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