A team of economists from Switzerland and Germany has found, via model testing, that two leading theories created to explain why humans engage in cooperation with one another tend to fail under scrutiny. In their paper published ...
Altruistic behavior often comes at a personal cost, but there are also benefits. The person you help might return the favor directly—tit-for-tat. Or, people might talk about your good deeds, and reciprocity could come via ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2023
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Wild Pacific salmon catches are one sixth what they were 50–70 years ago, Indigenous elders report.
Ecology
May 13, 2022
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Do politicians act like humans? Many jokes suggest otherwise, but the question is real.
Social Sciences
Feb 17, 2022
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Domestic dogs show many adaptations to living closely with humans, but they do not seem to reciprocate food-giving according to a study, publishing July 14 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, led by Jim McGetrick and colleagues ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2021
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Cooperation as a successful strategy has evolved in both nature and human society, but understanding its emergence can be a difficult task. Researchers have to abstract interactions between individuals into mathematical formulas ...
Mathematics
May 13, 2021
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An international research team lead by Aalto University has found a new and simple route to break the reciprocity law in the electromagnetic world, by changing a material's property periodically in time. The breakthrough ...
General Physics
Dec 23, 2020
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A research team led by Hitoshi Yamamoto from Rissho University has analyzed how the social norm of indirect reciprocity is adopted in human society and revealed results that contradict previous theoretical predictions. The ...
Social Sciences
Jul 1, 2020
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Like people, rats cooperate with one another and give food to those in need, but how can they be sure that other rats are being truthful about how hungry they are?
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2020
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Reciprocity isn't always a good thing.
General Physics
Feb 18, 2020
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