Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

By Natalie Henrich, Joseph Henrich. 2007

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Kantian optimization: A microfoundation for cooperation (2015, background): “An anthropological view is provided in Henrich and Henrich (2007).”
When Terror Hits Home: Identity Fused Americans Who Saw Boston Bombing Victims as “Family” Provided Aid (2015, background): “Perceiving that someone has been socialized to share one’s social norms, for instance, may lead to the belief that the person is a member of one’s ingroup and a suitable partner for cooperation, but not one’s kin (Henrich & Henrich, 2007; Richerson & Boyd, 2005).”
The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion: credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2009, background): “Theory suggests, and a wide range of empirical findings have shown, that both children and adults preferentially pay attention to and learn from others based on cues of prestige, success, skill, age, ethnicity (marked by dialect, dress, etc.) and sex (Henrich & Henrich, 2007: chapter 2).”
Moral Judgment and Action in Preverbal Infants and Toddlers (2013, background): “Evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, and primatologists are increasingly exploring the integral nature of morality to successful group living (see Alexander, 1987; Cosmides & Tooby, 1992; de Waal, 2006; Henrich & Henrich, 2007; Joyce, 2006; Katz, 2000; Price, Cosmides, & Tooby, 2002).”
Priorities in social categories. (2010, background): “Attention to language and accent as markers of group membership has widespread modern-day significance for human social interactions (Lippi-Green, 1997) and group identity (Henrich & Henrich, 2007).”
Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: Do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi? (2014, background): “For behaviour determined by cultural norms, majority norms have a very strong impact on the choices of individuals(Henrich and Henrich, 2007). The separation and concentration of ethnic groups will tend to enforce the local norms of the majority culture. Forces for change are found in the cities whe”
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks (2020, background): “Given this puzzle, the search for reasons and mechanisms that may allow cooperation to evolve and proliferate is an evergreen and vibrant subject across the social and natural sciences [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].”
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010, background): “Kinship cannot explain cooperation among non-relatives (Henrich and Henrich 2007), though “fictive kinship”—a cul85”