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The evolution of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity
Scientific Reports, 2021 Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation based on social norms. This mechanism requires that individuals in a population observe and judge each other’s behaviors.
Laura Schmid +3 more
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Exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic environment and generosity
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 We report data from an online experiment which allows us to study how generosity changed over a 6-day period during the initial explosive growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in Andalusia, Spain, while the country was under a strict lockdown. Participants (n =
P. Brañas-Garza +5 more
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Generosity among the Ik of Uganda
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 According to Turnbull's 1972 ethnography The Mountain People, the Ik of Uganda had a culture of selfishness that made them uncooperative. His claims contrast with two widely accepted principles in evolutionary biology, that humans cooperate on larger ...
Cathryn Townsend +3 more
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A neural link between generosity and happiness
Nature Communications, 2017 Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate generosity. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge for future generosity to investigate the brain mechanisms that link generous ...
Soyoung Q Park +2 more
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The Politics of Generosity. Colombian Official Discourse towards Migration from Venezuela, 2015-2018
Colombia Internacional, 2021 Objective/Context:As a step towards understanding the nature of power and political action amidst large-scale human mobility, the article analyses how migration from Venezuela emerged in Colombian official discourse between 2015 and 2018.
Mauricio Palma-Gutiérrez
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Humans expect generosity [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 AbstractMechanisms supporting human ultra-cooperativeness are very much subject to debate. One psychological feature likely to be relevant is the formation of expectations, particularly about receiving cooperative or generous behavior from others. Without such expectations, social life will be seriously impeded and, in turn, expectations leading to ...
Brañas-Garza, Pablo +2 more
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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans
PLoS ONE, 2007 Human beings routinely help strangers at costs to themselves. Sometimes the help offered is generous-offering more than the other expects. The proximate mechanisms supporting generosity are not well-understood, but several lines of research suggest a ...
Paul J Zak, Angela A Stanton
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No evidence that economic inequality moderates the effect of income on generosity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Are the rich less generous than the poor? Results of studies on this topic have been inconsistent. Recent research that has received widespread academic and media attention has provided evidence that higher income individuals are less ...
Stefan C Schmukle, Boris Egloff
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games [PDF]
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022 Understanding social interactions and generous behaviors have long been of considerable interest in the social sciences community. While the contagion of generosity is documented in the real world, less is known about such phenomenon in virtual worlds ...
Alex Bisberg +4 more
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Political ideology and generosity around the globe
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 In a world severely put under stress by COVID-19, generosity becomes increasingly essential both when able to transcend local boundaries, building upon universalistic values, and when directed toward more local contexts, such as the native country.
Veronica Pizziol +3 more
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