Big Gods Came After the Rise of Civilizations, Not Before, Finds Study Using Huge Historical Database
God only started watching over us quite recently, according to a new study that analyzed 414 societies from 30 world regions.
The Conversation
Topics: Cooperation Cultural Evolution Morality
Your Top Rival Can Be Your Biggest Ally
Friendly competition can expand the “win” pie and enhance your performance.
The New York Times
Topics: Cooperation Success
Following Conflict, a Turn to the Divine
Study shows that many who experience the trauma of war become increasingly religious.
The Harvard Gazette
Topics: Cooperation Group Conflict Religiosity Religious Groups Ritual Violence
How Belief in Punitive Gods May Have Helped Large Societies Cooperate
Belief in punitive gods may have helped humans cooperate across larger societies by uniting distant populations into a cohesive group.
New Scientist
Topics: Belief Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Faith Morality Religious Groups
How AI Will Rewire Us
For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship.
The Atlantic
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Robots Social Behavior Technology
Wild Beast Within
Barbara J. King considers how cruelty made us human.
The Times Literary Supplement
Topics: Cooperation Human Evolution Violence
Is a More Generous Society Possible?
Generosity helps communities manage risk and cope with disasters. New research untangles the factors that lead people to help neighbors in need.
SAPIENS
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity
Will Autonomous Vehicles Make Us Better People?
Research finds that programming driverless cars ahead of time inspires a person to move away from egocentric decision-making.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Robots Technology
Everyone Everywhere Shares Seven Universal Moral Rules, Oxford University Finds
The study, published in Current Anthropology, is the largest and most comprehensive and widespread survey of morals ever conducted and aimed to find out whether different societies had different versions of morality.
The Telegraph
Topics: Cooperation Morality
Cooperation in Chimpanzees Reveals Aspects of Our Evolutionary Past
Findings suggest that although there is individual variation among chimps, they do show some natural inclination toward cooperation.
APS Observer
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation
How Violence Pointed to Virtue
Primatologist Richard Wrangham’s new book examines the strange relationship between good and evil.
Topics: Cooperation Human Evolution Language Violence
“Team Human” Stresses That the Future Lies in Connection and Cooperation
Douglas Rushkoff’s knowledge of digital technology shines in his new book, horrifying us with the capacities of the machines we’ve built — and the ways they have been used against us.
NPR
Topics: Cooperation Power Technology
An Algorithm That Mimics Our Tribal Instincts Could Help AI Learn to Socialize
Researchers developed a new machine-learning algorithm to figure out the relationships among multiple agents through a limited number of observations.
MIT Technology Review
Topics: Cooperation Social Behavior
Would You Walk Through Fire for Your Company?
A little pain, it appears, goes a long way in promoting what’s called prosociality, behavior that fosters social trust, inclusion, and good feelings.
strategy+business
Topics: Bonding Cooperation Creativity
Correcting a Lack of Cooperation
Study shows that building bridges can foster working together better.
Topics: Cooperation Martin Nowak Social Networks
Chimpanzee and Human Cooperation More Similar Than Previously Thought, Study Says
Alexandra Rosati said she was surprised to find chimpanzees have a fast prosocial bias similar to the one humans have.
The Michigan Daily
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Cooperation Decision-Making
Want to Make People Act More Generously? Try This Simple Mind Trick
If people think they’re being (metaphorically) watched, it makes them donate more.
Fast Company
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Reputation
This Halloween, a Social Experiment Will Allow Internet Users to Control the Actions of a Real Person
MIT Media Laboratory’s BeeMe is the love child of Black Mirror and psychologist Stanley Milgram’s notorious experiments on free will and obedience.
Smithsonian
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Free Will
Why Are Some Religions More Popular Than Others?
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism are followed by roughly 75 percent of the global population. What made these religions, with billions of believers, so successful while others fizzled?
The Crux, Discover
Topics: Belief Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Morality
Would You Behave Cooperatively If Nobody Was Watching?
New research suggests that cooperation may be a reversible habit.
Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Social Behavior
Why Siblings Fight But Colleagues Cooperate
Local competition stymies cooperation, whereas global competition fosters it.
Aeon
Topics: Cooperation Violence
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