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Ethnic dominance damages cooperation more than ethnic diversity: results from multi-ethnic field experiments in India
Timothy M. Waring,Adrian Bell +1 more
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The authors showed that ethnic dominance interactions such as ethnic discrimination constitute a type of antisocial punishment between groups, and also found that conditional cooperation is limited to within ethnic groups, revealing ethnocentric cooperation preferences.About:
This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ethnic group & Diversity (politics).read more
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Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India.
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A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis
Timothy M. Waring,Michelle A. Kline,Jeremy S. Brooks,Sandra H. Goff,Sandra H. Goff,John M. Gowdy,Marco A. Janssen,Paul E. Smaldino,Jennifer Jacquet +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel evolutionary framework for describing social-ecological change is proposed, and the authors show how this framework complements existing sustainability frameworks with a description of the emergence and persistence of sustainable institutions and behavior, and a heuristic for designing and evaluating effective sustainability interventions.
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Experimental platforms for behavioral experiments on social-ecological systems
TL;DR: There is no ideal platform best suited for all possible use cases, but a menu of options is provided and their associated trade-offs are provided.
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Tribal Mobilization, Fragmented Groups, and Public Goods Provision in Jordan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that in semidemocratic or authoritarian countries, where political parties are weak, diversity can be an important source of electoral competition, leading to better services.
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A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory.
TL;DR: The meta-analysis finds that intergroup contact typically reduces intergroup prejudice, and this result suggests that contact theory, devised originally for racial and ethnic encounters, can be extended to other groups.
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Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions
William Easterly,Ross Levine +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that ethnic diversity helps explain cross-country differences in public policies and other economic indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa, and that high ethnic fragmentation explains a significant part of most of these characteristics.
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Intergroup contact theory
TL;DR: The chapter proposes four processes: learning about the outgroup, changed behavior, affective ties, and ingroup reappraisal, and distinguishes between essential and facilitating factors, and emphasizes different outcomes for different stages of contact.
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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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Altruistic punishment in humans.
Ernst Fehr,Simon Gächter +1 more
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.