The Biological and Evolutionary Logic of Human Cooperation

By T. Burnham, Dominic D. P. Johnson. 2005

201 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Michael Tomasello
2. A. Melis
3. Andy Gardner
4. Emma Cohen
5. Jesse M. Bering
6. Daniel Nettle
7. Gilbert Roberts
8. Dominic D. P. Johnson

In Safety Research

1. Emma Cohen
2. Gilbert Roberts
3. Dominic D. P. Johnson
4. Andy Gardner
5. Melissa Bateson
6. Daniel Nettle
7. Stuart A. West
8. Michael Tomasello

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Andy Gardner
2. Dominic D. P. Johnson
3. A. Melis
4. C. Mouden
5. Daniel Nettle
6. Michael Tomasello
7. Stuart A. West
8. E. Herrmann

Citations in the corpus

• Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “The first theory comes from evolutionary psychology and is often called the Big Mistake Hypothesis (e.g., Burnham and Johnson 2005).”
• Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting (2006, background): “A simpler explanation is simply that humans are strongly attuned to cues that generally indicate reputational consequences of behaviour (Burnham & Johnson 2005; Haley & Fessler 2005).”
• Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, background): “Another way of looking at this is that selection would favour traits that maximize group success, termed group adaptations.”
• Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “The first theory comes from evolutionary psychology and is often called the Big Mistake Hypothesis (e.g., Burnham and Johnson 2005).”
• The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, background): “Many biologists and others have challenged the assertion that standard biological theory is insufficient to explain strong reciprocity (e.g., Burnham and Johnson 2005; Lehmann et al. 2007; West, Griffin, and Gardner 2006b; West, El Mouden, and Gardner 2010).”
• Hand of God, Mind of Man: Punishment and Cognition in the Evolution of Cooperation* (2006, background): “…for the good of the group (Fehr and Gächter 2002; Fehr and Fischbacher 2003), and this trait is propagated by group selection (however, this requires that humans are genuinely altruistic, a claim that is problematic for a number of reasons, see Burnham and Johnson 2005; Johnson et al. 2003).”