Why we cooperate : based on the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford
By William Michael Tomasello. 2009
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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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In Social Psychology
- Michael Tomasello
- A. Melis
- E. Wyman
- E. Herrmann
- Claudio Tennie
- Amrisha Vaish
- Robert Hepach
- Anke F. Bullinger
In Sociology and Political Science
- Adam Lerer
- Alex Peysakhovich
- A. Melis
- Michael Tomasello
- Amrisha Vaish
- E. Herrmann
- Claudio Tennie
- E. Wyman
Citations in the corpus
- Coordination of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a Stag Hunt Game (2011, background): “Some commentators on human evolution have singled out for special attention the way that humans can so readily solve coordination problems with use of various kinds of mutual knowledge and communication (Alvard in press; Tomasello 2009).”
- A New Look at Children’s Prosocial Motivation (2013, background): “…in all of these studies, children intervene from a third-party, agent-neutral perspective when seemingly nothing is directly at stake for them, indicating an early moral sense in which we care about those with whom we are interdependent (Tomasello, 2009; Tomasello et al., in press; Vaish, 2010).”
- Merging second-person and first-person neuroscience (2013, neutral): “& Tomasello, M. (2007) Cooperation and human cognition: The Vygotskian”
- How Biology Became Social, and What it Means for Social Theory (2014, background): “…the cooperative capacities and specific exquisite sociality of human beings (cooperative communication or ‘working in “We-mode” ’) have been emphasized in contrast to the mere competitive skills (individualistic communication) of other primates (Moll and Tomasello, 2007; Tomasello, 2009).”
- Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “…mind reading (we each know that the other knows, etc.), which is the basic cognitive ability that enables humans to engage in all forms of joint and collective intentionality (Tomasello 2008, 2009), including joint attention, common conceptual ground, and all “public” knowledge and activities.”
- Maintaining cooperation in complex social dilemmas using deep reinforcement learning (2017, background): “s well as come up with a mutually beneficial and stable policy. Humans are good at navigating real world social dilemmas using social heuristics that have been tuned via evolution and social learning (Tomasello, 2009; Hoffman et al., 2015; Peysakhovich & Rand, 2015; Rand et al., 2014) . Our goal ”
- Kantian optimization: A microfoundation for cooperation (2015, background): “Tomasello (2009) describes experiments that indicate that the urge to cooperate in human babies is have discussed these ideas for stions and help: Roger Howe, , Larry Samuelson, Rajiv Sethi, d States. inborn, while it does not exist in chimpanzees.”