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Inequity aversion and the evolution of cooperation [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review E, 2014
Evolution of cooperation is a widely studied problem in biology, social science, economics, and artificial intelligence. Most of the existing approaches that explain cooperation rely on some notion of direct or indirect reciprocity. These reciprocity based models assume agents recognize their partner and know their previous interactions, which requires
Asrar Ahmed, Kamalakar Karlapalem
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There is no joy like malicious joy: schadenfreude in young children. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Human emotions are strongly shaped by the tendency to compare the relative state of oneself to others. Although social comparison based emotions such as jealousy and schadenfreude (pleasure in the other misfortune) are important social emotions, little ...
Simone G Shamay-Tsoory   +2 more
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Inequality aversion, health inequalities and health achievement [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Economics, 2002
This paper addresses two issues. The first is how health inequalities can be measured in such a way as to take into account policymakers' attitudes towards inequality. The Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody one particular set of value judgements.
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Approaches for inequity-averse sorting [PDF]

open access: yesComputers & Operations Research, 2016
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The co-evolution of fairness preferences and costly punishment. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
We study the co-evolutionary emergence of fairness preferences in the form of other-regarding behavior and its effect on the origination of costly punishment behavior in public good games.
Moritz Hetzer, Didier Sornette
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Interactive effects of OXTR and GAD1 on envy-associated behaviors and neural responses.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Inequity aversion (negative feelings induced by outcome differences between the self and other) plays a key role in human social behaviors. The neurotransmitters oxytocin and GABA have been implicated in neural responses to inequity.
Toshiko Tanaka   +5 more
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Perceived reward attainability may underlie dogs’ responses in inequity paradigms

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Dogs have repeatedly been shown to give their paw to an experimenter more times for no reward when a rewarded conspecific partner is absent than when a rewarded conspecific is present, thereby showing inequity aversion.
Jim McGetrick   +5 more
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A Computational Model of Non-optimal Suspiciousness in the Minnesota Trust Game

open access: yesComputational Psychiatry, 2022
This study modelled 'spite sensitivity', the worry that others are willing to incur a loss to hurt you, which is thought to undergird suspiciousness and persecutory ideation.
Rebecca Kazinka   +2 more
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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher
Kölle, Felix   +2 more
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Beneficial betrayal aversion. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Many studies demonstrate the social benefits of cooperation. Likewise, recent studies convincingly demonstrate that betrayal aversion hinders trust and discourages cooperation.
Jason A Aimone, Daniel Houser
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