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Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment

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This paper found a halving of the odds of littering in the presence of posters featuring eyes, as compared to posters featuring flowers, suggesting that the effect of eye images cannot be explained by their drawing attention to verbal instructions.
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This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 293 citations till now.

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The Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Use of Force and Citizens’ Complaints Against the Police: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TL;DR: The question is: do body-worn-cameras reduce the prevalence of use-of-force and/or citizens’ complaints against the police?
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Religion and morality.

TL;DR: It is argued that to make progress, the categories “religion” and “morality” must be fractionated into a set of biologically and psychologically cogent traits, revealing the cognitive foundations that shape and constrain relevant cultural variants.
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Strategies for cooperation in biological markets, especially for humans

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the basics of biological markets and how they relate to traditional models of cooperation, and then elucidate their impact on human cooperation, especially in the tasks of choosing partners, competing over partners, and keeping partners.
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Powering up with indirect reciprocity in a large-scale field experiment

TL;DR: It is shown how indirect reciprocity can be harnessed to increase cooperation in a relevant, real-world public goods game and provided evidence that reputational concerns are driving the observability effect.
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Young children are more generous when others are aware of their actions.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that five-year-olds exhibit “strategic prosociality,” behaving differentially generous as a function of the amount of information available to the recipient about their actions.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

TL;DR: In Nudge as discussed by the authors, Thaler and Sunstein argue that human beings are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder and make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.
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Altruistic punishment in humans.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that negative emotions towards defectors are the proximate mechanism behind altruistic punishment and that cooperation flourishes if altruistic punishments are possible, and breaks down if it is ruled out.
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Altruistic Punishment in Humans

TL;DR: It is shown experimentally that the altruistic punishment of defectors is a key motive for the explanation of cooperation, and that future study of the evolution of human cooperation should include a strong focus on explaining altruistic punished.
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The interaction of TIGIT with PVR and PVRL2 inhibits human NK cell cytotoxicity

TL;DR: It is shown that TIGIT is expressed by all human NK cells, that it binds PVR and PVRL2 but not PVRL3 and that it inhibits NK cytotoxicity directly through its ITIM, providing an “alternative self” mechanism for MHC class I inhibition.
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Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring

TL;DR: It is proposed that the emergence of indirect reciprocity was a decisive step for the evolution of human societies and the probability of knowing the ‘image’ of the recipient must exceed the cost-to-benefit ratio of the altruistic act.
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