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Culture-gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality.
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This work hypothesizes a norm-psychology: a suite of psychological adaptations for inferring, encoding in memory, adhering to, enforcing and redressing violations of the shared behavioral standards of one's community and outlines how this account organizes diverse empirical findings in the cognitive sciences and related disciplines.About:
This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 533 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Norm (social) & Sociocultural evolution.read more
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ReviewFeature ReviewHuman cooperation
David G. Rand,Martin A. Nowak +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that automatic, intuitive responses favor cooperative strategies that reciprocate: it is argued that this behavior reflects the overgeneralization of cooperative strategies learned in the context of direct and indirect reciprocity.
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The cultural evolution of prosocial religions.
Ara Norenzayan,Azim F. Shariff,Will M. Gervais,Aiyana K. Willard,Rita Anne McNamara,Edward Slingerland,Joseph Henrich +6 more
TL;DR: It is explained how a package of culturally evolved religious beliefs and practices characterized by increasingly potent, moralizing, supernatural agents, credible displays of faith, and other psychologically active elements conducive to social solidarity promoted high fertility rates and large-scale cooperation with co-religionists, often contributing to success in intergroup competition and conflict.
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The WEIRDest People in the World
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Culture and the evolutionary process
Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson +1 more
TL;DR: Using methods developed by population biologists, a theory of cultural evolution is proposed that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.
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WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]
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