Social preferences and environmental quality: Evidence from school children in Sierra Leone [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper we examine the effects that variations in the quality of the environment at birth have on children's other-regarding preferences, as measured through four binary-choice dictator games run with school-age children in rural Sierra Leone.
D'Adda, Giovanna, Levely, Ian
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The Nature of Legal Dispute Bargaining [PDF]
, 2016 The longstanding debate over the relative merits of adversarial and communitarian theories of legal dispute bargaining has been in somewhat of a holding pattern for several years, but recent research in the field of cognitive neuroscience may break the ...
Condlin, Robert J
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Is the Rule of Law Cosmopolitan? [PDF]
, 2000 What I will argue in the bulk of the paper is that whether or not the rule of law implies ethical cosmopolitanism depends: it depends on how we understand or interpret the legalistic sense of justice that law and the rule of law seemingly require.
West, Robin
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A structural view of corporate purposes
European Management Review, Volume 22, Issue 4, Page 859-879, December 2025.
Margaret Blair +3 more
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The Impact of Positivity and Parochial Altruism on Protective Behaviours during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Singh Solorzano C +3 more
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Groupwise information sharing promotes ingroup favoritism in indirect reciprocity [PDF]
, 2012 Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for cooperation in social dilemma situations, in which an individual is motivated to help another to acquire a good reputation and receive help from others afterwards.
Masuda, Naoki, Nakamura, Mitsuhiro
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Analyzing Social Exchange Motives With Theory-Driven Data and Machine Learning
IEEE AccessThis study investigated the capability of machine learning to analyze and predict individuals’ motives within an experimental game context. Although humans predict the motives of others to respond appropriately, these motives often overlap and are
Kevin Igwe, Kevin Durrheim
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What Motivates Participation in Violent Political Action: Selective Incentives or Parochial Altruism? [PDF]
, 2009 In standard models of decision making, participation in violent political action is understood as the product of instrumentally rational reasoning.
Atran, Scott, Ginges, Jeremy
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Oxytocin Motivates Non-Cooperation in Intergroup Conflict to Protect Vulnerable In-Group Members [PDF]
, 2012 Intergroup conflict is often driven by an individual's motivation to protect oneself and fellow group members against the threat of out-group aggression, including the tendency to pre-empt out-group threat through a competitive approach.
Dreu, C.K.W. (Carsten) de +4 more
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Contest Success Functions: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
Contest success functions, which show how probabilities of win- ning depend on resources devoted to a conflict, have been widely used in the literature addressing appropriative activities (economics), international and civil wars (political science), and
Sung Ha Hwang
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