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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
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.
Science
Topics: Aging Animal Studies Cooperation Human Uniqueness Social Behavior Social Relationships
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
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?
These traditions bind us to our groups and can help calm us.
Science News
Topics: Bonding Cooperation Cristine Legare Emotion Group Identity Ritual
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
Ancient Bones Offer Clues to How Long Ago Humans Cared for the Vulnerable
The field of bioarchaeology look to skeletons that are thousands of years old for insights into the nature of long ago societies.
Goats and Soda, NPR
Topics: Cooperation Neanderthals
Playing Favorites: When Kindness Toward Some Means Callousness Toward Others
If we do a favor for someone we know, we think we’ve done a good deed. What we don’t tend to ask is: Who have we harmed by treating this person with more kindness than we show toward others?
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Altruism Bias Cooperation Decision-Making Group Identity Joshua Greene Morality
Cooperation Through Cultural Group Selection
If competitive environments tend to produce parochial cooperation by way of cultural group selection — and if this is an emergent principle in human nature — then the implications are enormous.
Topics: Cooperation Group Conflict Group Identity Tribalism
Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms
Studies of collective behavior usually focus on how crowds of organisms coordinate their actions. But what if the individuals that don’t participate have just as much to tell us?
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Cooperation Social Behavior
The Natural Origins of Obligation
Michael Tomasello argues that obligation emerges fundamentally from the shared sense of an interdependent “we,” which entails a shared intentionality to collaborate together toward a common goal, often with distinct roles and responsibilities for different partners.
Science on Religion
Topics: Cooperation Morality Social Relationships
Extremist Groups Require the Greatest Trust Among Members
The fear that a member may free ride on the efforts of others, or worse yet, defect to an opposing coalition, is a threat to the preservation of the group.
Topics: Cooperation Group Conflict Group Identity Trust
We Aren’t Selfish After All
In turbulent times, people go from “me” thinking to “we” thinking.
Nautilus
Topics: Cooperation Group Identity Resilience
In Negotiations, Givers Are Smarter Than Takers
Generosity is a sign of intelligence, and givers are the rising tide that lifts all boats.
The New York Times
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Intelligence
Why We Need to Be More Emotional to Save the World
If our species wants to enjoy a long-term future, it might need to tap into the very human qualities of emotion.
Topics: Altruism Awe Cooperation Decision-Making Emotion Empathy Flourishing Rationality
Why Do We Laugh?
We laugh even before we can speak. But why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you.
Quick and Dirty Tips, Scientific American
Topics: Bonding Cooperation
Is Human Cooperativity an Outcome of Competition Between Cultural Groups?
A study by ASU researchers looks at how culture may have fueled our capacity to cooperate with strangers.
ASU Now
Topics: Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolutionary Mechanisms Human Evolution
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