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Do We Harm Others Even if We Don't Need To?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Evolutionary explanations of the co-existence of large-scale cooperation and warfare in human societies rest on the hypothesis of parochial altruism, the view thatin-group pro-sociality and out-group anti-sociality have co-evolved.
Maria Paula eCacault +3 more
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Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2018 In her contribution, Morese takes into account three phenomena that are particularly interesting for understanding how human beings actually behave towards others when their group identities are involved – i.e.
Sarah Songhorian
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Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is it Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not
Evolutionary Psychology, 2022 History is full of violence and oppression within and between groups, and although group conflicts enhance within-group cooperation (mediated by oxytocin, which promotes parochial altruism) the hierarchy within groups ensures that spoils accrue very ...
Melvin Konner
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Some Results on Ethnic Conflicts Based on Evolutionary Game Simulation
, 2013 The force of the ethnic separatism, essentially origining from negative effect of ethnic identity, is damaging the stability and harmony of multiethnic countries.
Liu, Yuhang +5 more
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Evolution in Archaeology [PDF]
, 2008 This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus within the discipline in the early 1980s; its main present-day currents ...
Shennan, SJ
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Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism. [PDF]
, 2020 Clinical evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion regulation due to modulation of activity in neural substrates linked to the regulation of emotions and social preferences.
Alexander, Marcus +5 more
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Parochial Altruism: Pitfalls and Prospects
, 2016 A number of recent influential publications have promoted the idea that the high levels of altruism and violent intergroup conflicts observed in humans might be the result of a joint evolution of behavioral traits causing cooperativeness among group members ('in-group love') and spite and aggression between members of different groups ('out-group hate')
Rusch, Hannes +2 more
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter +2 more
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Friendships and Favouritism on the Schoolground - A Framed Field Experiment [PDF]
, 2011 We present experimental evidence on favouritism practices. Children compete in teams in a tournament. After the first round of a real effort task, children indicate which group member they would prefer to do the task in the second round, for the benefit ...
Belot, Michele, van de Ven, Jeroen
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 Group-based competition is considered to be a ubiquitous social context in human society. However, little is known about its potential effects on children’s prosocial behaviors.
Yi eZhu, Xian eGuan, Yansong eLi
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