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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
Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life
Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Social Behavior
Is Tylenol Dulling Our Capacity for Empathy?
New research finds that acetaminophen makes us more indifferent to others’ pleasure, as well as their pain.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Cooperation Emotion Empathy
What Do People Think Is the Best Way to Give Charity?
New studies explore moral judgments about donors.
Ulterior Motives, Psychology Today
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Morality
Empathy Is the Secret Ingredient That Makes Cooperation — and Civilization — Possible
Where do the cooperative skills that hold together human societies come from and why don’t our selfish instincts overwhelm them? Evolutionary game theory suggests that empathy is a crucial contributor.
The Conversation
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Empathy Morality Reputation Social Behavior Social Contagion
Empathy, Morality, Community, Culture — Apes Have It All
Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.
Nautilus
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Atheism Cooperation Emotion Empathy Fairness Frans de Waal Human Uniqueness Morality Religiosity
What’s Wrong With Moral Foundations Theory, and How to get Moral Psychology Right
Moral Foundations Theory has theoretical and empirical weaknesses argues Oliver Scott Curry. He proposes a new theory of morality.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Cooperation Morality
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.
Topics: Cooperation Cultural Evolution Evolution of Religion Morality
Evolving Society: Why Humanity Coheres
Agustín Fuentes compares three books on the origins, trajectory, and implications of our group behavior.
Nature
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation Group Conflict Human Evolution Violence
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
Eating From a Shared Plate Encourages Cooperation
The researchers found that, on average, those who ate from the same bowls reached agreements faster.
Topics: Cooperation
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
The Wisdom of Crowds Requires the Political Left and Right to Work Together
Collaborations between followers of opposing ideologies lead to less biased, higher quality Wikipedia pages.
Scientific American
Topics: Cooperation Creativity Knowledge
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
Why Scientists Say Experiencing Awe Can Help You Live Your Best Life
Psychologists say the emotion of awe plays a big role in our health, happiness, and wellbeing.
NBC News BETTER
Topics: Awe Cooperation Curiosity Emotion Happiness Humility
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.
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
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
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