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Understanding reciprocity [PDF]
This paper surveys the evolutionary game theoretic literature on reciprocity in human interactions, dealing both with long-term relationships and with sporadic interactions. Four basic themes, repetition, commitment, assortation, and parochialism, appear
E.Somanathan, Rajiv Sethi
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Beyond Keeping the Peace: Can Peacekeepers Reduce Ethnic Divisions After Violence?
, 2018 Existing research suggests that international peacekeeping contributes to conflict resolution and helps sustain peace, often in locations with hostile ethnic divisions.
Page, Douglas D., Whitt, Sam
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Statistics for evidence-based policy in the Church of England : predicting diocesan performance [PDF]
, 2010 This study computed the percentage changes recorded on six separate performance indicators between 1991 and 2000 in order to calculate the effect of the Decade of Evangelism on the mainland dioceses of the Church of England.
Francis, Leslie J. +2 more
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Rarer Actions: Giving and Taking in Third-Party Punishment Games [PDF]
In attempting to understand cooperation, economists have used the methods of experimental economics to focus on spheres of human behavior in which humans display altruism, reciprocity, or other social preferences through giving and through punishment ...
Simon Halliday
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Interpersonal and Ideological Kindness: A Biocultural Approach [PDF]
, 2018 In accordance with Richard Dawkins’ materialist “selfish gene” theory of human behavior, altruism is a subject matter that is treated conservatively by biologists, whose understanding of the human version of altruism tends toward mutualistic and ...
Averitt-Hubbard, Sally
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Reputation and cooperation in defence [PDF]
, 2011 Surprisingly high levels of within-group cooperation are observed in conflict situations. Ex- periments confirm that external threats lead to higher cooperation.
Hugh-Jones, David, Zultan , Ro’i
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Reputation and Cooperation in Defence [PDF]
Surprisingly high levels of within-group cooperation are observed in conflict situations. Ex- periments confirm that external threats lead to higher cooperation. The psychological literature suggests proximate explanations in the form of group processes,
Hugh Jones, David
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Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game Based on the Second-Best Decision [PDF]
In the research addressing the prisoner's dilemma game, the effectiveness and accountableness of the method allowing for the emergence of cooperation is generally discussed.
Takao Terano, Tetsushi Ohdaira
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Functional Complementarity of Violence and Social Control in Studies of Moral Evolution
Социология властиThe paper presents a critical analysis of the concept of functional complementarity between violence and social control in studies on the evolution of morality.
G. A. Chasovskikh
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Third-party Punishment is more effective on Women: Experimental Evidence [PDF]
Existing experimental studies mainly focus on motivations and choices of thirdparty punishers, but only few of them detect sanction efficacy contradictory results. Our paper wants to shed light on this point.
Pablo Brañas-Garza, Stefania Ottone
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