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Cooperation Makes It Happen: Four Leading Scientists Share Their Insights
Topics: Altruism Cooperation
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Better Decisions During a Crisis?
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Ethics Morality
How to Mix Compassion and Cooperation Into Social Distancing
Topics: Bonding Compassion Cooperation David DeSteno Emotion Gratitude Resilience
Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making Rationality Resilience Social Inequality
A Universal Human Psychological Response
Brains Might Sync as People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research
When we cooperate on certain tasks, our brainwaves might synchronize. This finding could upend the current understanding of consciousness.
Discover
Topics: Consciousness Cooperation
Why Are We So Uncharitable to Those Doing Good Deeds?
From veganism to fundraising, psychologists have found acts of altruism often attract mistrust and even anger.
The Guardian
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity Morality Reputation
Dolphins Learn the ‘Names’ of Their Friends to Form Teams — a First in Animal Kingdom
Findings reveal the marine mammals have a sense of team membership.
Science
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation Social Networks Social Relationships
Can Gratitude Help You Live More Sustainably?
A new study suggests that when people give thanks, they’re less likely to overdraw from shared resources.
Greater Good Magazine
Topics: Cooperation David DeSteno Emotion Gratitude Happiness
Just Thinking About Cooperation Can Make You Less Prejudiced
A new study suggests that imagining we’ll be cooperating with people outside our social groups reduces bias.
Topics: Bias Cooperation
Does Competition Increase Trust?
Research shows that when a person moves into a more competitive industry their trust tends to increase.
This View of Life
Topics: Cooperation Cultural Evolution Trust
How Bonobos Help Explain the Evolution of Nice
How our ability to share, empathize, and cooperate shows up in bonobos, too.
Short Wave, NPR
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation Empathy
Sharing Doesn’t Make You a Sucker. This Scientist Has the Numbers to Prove It
With the Human Generosity Project, Athena Aktipis wants to show that cooperation makes humans stronger.
Popular Science
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity
The Science of Empathy, Forgiveness, and Prosocial Behavior
An interview with psychologist Michael McCullough.
Research in Action, American Psychological Association
Topics: Cooperation Empathy Forgiveness Michael McCullough
Do Apologies Even Matter?
Science is finally proving that the act of apologizing can save and strengthen a relationship that’s been damaged by conflict.
Freethink
Topics: Cooperation Forgiveness Group Identity Morality Social Relationships Trust
Did Neanderthals Go to War With Our Ancestors?
Exactly why the Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago is still greatly debated, but evolutionary biologist Nicholas Longrich looks at the evidence for a war between them and modern humans.
BBC Future
Topics: Cooperation Group Conflict Human Evolution Neanderthals
Like Humans, Male Chimps Mellow With Age
Findings could provide clues to the roots of human aging behavior patterns.
Topics: Aging Animal Studies Cooperation Human Uniqueness Social Behavior Social Relationships
Why You Don’t Really Know What You Know
One of the world’s biggest science experiments shows why everybody needs to re-examine what it means to know something.
MIT Technology Review
Topics: Cognition Cooperation Information Knowledge Trust
The Urge to Punish Is Not Only About Revenge — Unfairness Can Unleash It, Too
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
The Conversation
Topics: Cooperation Fairness Social Inequality
Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems
Looking at religions as a complex adaptive systems helps make sense of both their persistent cross-cultural similarities and their widely varying differences.
Science on Religion
Topics: Cooperation Evolution of Religion Religious Groups Ritual Scientific Study of Religion
The Coronavirus in Evolutionary Perspective
Humans evolved social potential to cooperate with others will eventually ignite a collective response to fight COVID-19 around the globe.
The Evolution Institute
Topics: Cooperation Evolutionary Theory Human Evolution
Why Do We Miss the Rituals Put On Hold By the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Science News
Topics: Bonding Cooperation Cristine Legare Emotion Group Identity Ritual
Mask Communication
It turns out getting someone to wear a mask has a lot to do with how you ask, and when, and who does the asking.
Planet Money, NPR
Topics: Altruism Bias Cooperation Reputation
It’s Time to Fix Evolution’s Public Relations Problem
Evolution denial is rooted in deeply held misconceptions and current practices in evolution education are not adequate to address the problem.
Topics: Cooperation Education Evolutionary Theory
Friendliness and Cooperation Are Secrets of Humans’ Success
An interview with Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods about their riveting new book.
Animal Emotions, Psychology Today
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Cooperation
Not So Random Acts: Science Finds That Being Kind Pays Off
Research shows that acts of kindness make us feel better and healthier. Kindness is also key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say.
Associated Press
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation Generosity Happiness Human Uniqueness Michael McCullough Values
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