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Chapter 11 Natural Kantian or ZOO ECONOMICUS ? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 771-817). 2006
This paper addresses the question of whether our evolutionary history suggests that humans are likely to be individually selected selfish maximizers or group selected altruists. It surveys models from the literature of evolutionary biology in which groups are formed and dissolved and where the...
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Two-person Bargaining with Lexicographic Altruistic Preferences
Glycopantis, Dionysius - 2019
In bargaining theory a usual assumption is either that of von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions or that of continuous preferences. Recently we considered in Glycopantis a bargaining model which breaks away from this traditional treatment by employing lexicographic preferences of a...
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
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Social Dilemma Cooperation (Unlike Dictator Game Giving) Is Intuitive for Men As Well As Women
Rand, David G. - 2017
depends on both the individual and the context. For example, non-zero-sum cooperation (e.g. in social dilemmas like the … favor social dilemma cooperation regardless of gender, but only favor DG giving among women. Here I present meta …-analytic evidence in support of this prediction. In 31 studies examining social dilemma cooperation (N=13,447), I find that promoting …
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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From Good Institutions to Generous Citizens : Top-Down Incentives to Cooperate Promote Subsequent Prosociality But Not Norm Enforcement
Stagnaro, Michael; Arechar, Antonio; Rand, David G. - 2017
social heuristics, suggest boundary conditions on spillover effects of cooperation, and demonstrate the power of effective … institutions for instilling habits of virtue and creating cultures of cooperation …
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Social cohesion and the evolution of altruism
García Martínez, José A.; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - In: Games and economic behavior 92 (2015), pp. 74-105
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Why is parochialism prevalent? : an evolutionary approach
Berg, Nathan; Kim, Jeong-yoo; Lee, Kyu-Min - In: Journal of economic interaction and coordination 16 (2021) 4, pp. 769-796
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Farsightedness and cautiousness in coalition formation
Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2003
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Bargaining and distribution of power in the EU's Conciliation Committee
Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2003
The European Union (EU) has moved towards bicameralism, making the codecision procedure its most important mechanism for decision making. To gauge if European Parliament (EP) and Council of Ministers (CM) are equally powerful "codecision makers", understanding of the final stage of the procedure...
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