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Self-interested partner selection can lead to the emergence of fairness
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In this paper, the authors provided an empirical assessment of the theory of biological markets and competitive altruism based on a laboratory experiment with human subjects using the Ultimatum game and found that more generous proposers and more tolerant responders are preferred as partners.About:
This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2010-07-01. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Competitive altruism & Ultimatum game.read more
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Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties
TL;DR: These results show that simple topological dynamics reflecting the individual capacity for self-organization of social ties can produce realistic networks of high average connectivity with associated single-to-broad–scale heterogeneity and heterogeneity is found to become maximal when W reaches its critical value.
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A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice
TL;DR: An approach to morality is developed as an adaptation to an environment in which individuals were in competition to be chosen and recruited in mutually advantageous cooperative interactions, and the best strategy is to treat others with impartiality and to share the costs and benefits of cooperation equally.
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Preschoolers are able to take merit into account when distributing goods.
TL;DR: This paper found that children as young as 3 years old are able to take merit into account by distributing tokens according to individual contributions but that this ability may be hidden by a preference for equality.
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Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat
Robert Thomson,Masaki Yuki,Thomas Talhelm,Joanna Schug,Mie Kito,Arin H. Ayanian,Julia C. Becker,Maja Becker,Chi-Yue Chiu,Hoon Seok Choi,Carolina M. Ferreira,Márta Fülöp,Márta Fülöp,Pelin Gul,Ana Maria Houghton-Illera,Mihkel Joasoo,Jonathan Jong,Jonathan Jong,Christopher Kavanagh,Dmytro Khutkyy,Claudia Manzi,Urszula M. Marcinkowska,Taciano L. Milfont,Félix Neto,Timo von Oertzen,Ruthie Pliskin,Alvaro San Martin,Purnima Singh,Mariko L. Visserman +28 more
TL;DR: It is found that relationships are more stable and hard to form in east Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, while they are more fluid in the West and Latin America, and results show that relationally mobile cultures tend to have higher interpersonal trust and intimacy.
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Biological trade and markets.
Peter Hammerstein,Ronald Noë +1 more
TL;DR: It turns out that conventional models—often called ‘Walrasian’ markets—are of limited relevance to biology and early approaches to trade and markets contain elements of thought that have inspired useful models in biology.
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The Tragedy of the Commons
TL;DR: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage
David Gale,Lloyd S. Shapley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between college admission and the stability of marriage in the United States, and found that college admission is correlated with the number of stable marriages.
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An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining
TL;DR: In this paper, the ultimatum bargaining games with two players and two stages were investigated. But the authors focused on situations with two agents and two stage bargaining games and only one agent has to decide and the set of outcomes is restricted to two results.
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The Competitive Advantage of Sanctioning Institutions
Özgür Gürerk,Özgür Gürerk,Bernd Irlenbusch,Bernd Irlenbusch,Bettina Rockenbach,Bettina Rockenbach +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown experimentally that a sanctioning institution is the undisputed winner in a competition with a sanction-free institution, demonstrating the competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions and exemplify the emergence and manifestation of social order driven by institutional selection.