The Evolution of Ethnocentrism

By Ross A. Hammond, Robert Axelrod. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Challenges for Transparency (2017, background): “In subsequent work, Hammond and Axelrod (2006) expanded the framework to consider agents which have an extra feature of ‘ethnicity’ which might be regarded as their color or tribe.”
Transparency: Motivations and Challenges (2017, background): “ respectively. The left image shows one run after 100 periods; the right image is after 2000 periods. Over time, almost all agents are ethnocentric. See the reference for a video. In subsequent work, [26] expanded the framework to consider agents which have an extra feature of ‘ethnicity’ which migh”
Ingroup favoritism in cooperation: a meta-analysis. (2014, background): “…primary— people live in them and, sometimes, for them—and that ingroup favoritism has strong adaptive value because it facilitates withingroup coordination and the survival of individuals and groups (see also Brewer, 1979, 2007; Darwin, 1871; Fu et al., 2012; Hammond & Axelrod, 2006; Masuda, 2012).”
Evolution of parochial altruism by multilevel selection (2011, background): “, Price, 1972; Hamilton, 1975; Frank, 1998; Lehmann and Keller, 2006; Nowak, 2006), ultimate or evolutionary explanations of parochial altruism have only recently received some attention (Bowles and Choi, 2004; Hammond and Axelrod, 2006; Choi and Bowles, 2007; Lehmann and Feldman, 2008).”
The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, methodology): “…the degree of language diversity across a population or geographical area (Nettle 1996); degrees of dispersal and migration (viscosity and mixing) in human populations are commensurate with parameters required for the emergence and maintenance of accent-tag cooperation (Hammond and Axelrod 2006a).”