Journal article
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences
- Abstract:
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Willingness to lay down one's life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation on previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior to evolve. The model generates a series of predictions that we then test empirically in a range of special sample populations (including military veterans, colle...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
John Templeton Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Pages:
- 44292
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2045-2322
- ISSN:
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2045-2322
- Source identifiers:
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680772
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:680772
- UUID:
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uuid:cd6a71ae-0fd4-4949-bd86-083e01ab5f8e
- Local pid:
- pubs:680772
- Deposit date:
- 2017-05-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Whitehouse et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2017. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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