Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans

By Stuart A. West, C. Mouden, Andy Gardner. 2011

471 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. Alex Mesoudi
2. Kevin N. Laland
3. Pat Barclay
4. J. Odling-Smee
5. Sebastian Fehrler
6. T. Uller
7. Wojtek Przepiorka
8. Daniel Taylor

In Safety Research

1. Pat Barclay
2. Sebastian Fehrler
3. Wojtek Przepiorka
4. Alex Mesoudi
5. Daniel Taylor
6. E. Smith
7. Isabel Thielmann
8. Benjamin E. Hilbig

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. Kevin N. Laland
3. J. Odling-Smee
4. Pat Barclay
5. Sebastian Fehrler
6. Wojtek Przepiorka
7. Daniel Taylor
8. Erle C. Ellis

Citations in the corpus

• Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, methodology): “Moreover, Bayesian-MCMC methods can explicitly detect and handle cross-lineage borrowing (Matthews et al. 2011).”
• More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited (2013, background): “The distinction itself can be one of the contested issues, since a failure to respect Mayr’s dichotomy is sometimes taken as a fatal flaw in views of adaptive evolution and a sign of confusion (e.g. Dawkins 2004; de Jong 2005; West et al. 2011; Scott-Phillips et al. 2011; Dickins and Rahman 2012).”
• Strategies for cooperation in biological markets, especially for humans (2013, background): “This can select for a default strategy of cooperation—or at least an avoidance of unambiguous complete selfishness—so that people avoid the high costs of detected selfishness (Delton et al., 2011; Frank, 1988; Johnson & Bering, 2006; West et al., 2011).”
• Evolution of the social contract (2014, background): “Some claim that the pro-altruism scholars have misinterpreted standard theory and have attacked a straw man [Binmore, 2005a, West et al., 2011, 2008], while others that there is insufficient empirical evidence that humans really are altruistic [Guala, 2012a, Burton-Chellew and West, 2013, Binmore,…”
• Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts (2013, background): “Our findings corroborate that the signaling benefits of altruistic acts that accrue in social exchange can ease the conditions for the evolution of social preferences. ent of Sociology, Manor Road, k (W. Przepiorka). l rights reserved.”