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| Title |
Are Humans Too Generous and Too Punitive? Using Psychological Principles to Further Debates about Human Social Evolution
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00799 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Max M. Krasnow, Andrew W. Delton |
| Abstract |
Are humans too generous and too punitive? Many researchers have concluded that classic theories of social evolution (e.g., direct reciprocity, reputation) are not sufficient to explain human cooperation; instead, group selection theories are needed. We think such a move is premature. The leap to these models has been made by moving directly from thinking about selection pressures to predicting patterns of behavior and ignoring the intervening layer of evolved psychology that must mediate this connection. In real world environments, information processing is a non-trivial problem and details of the ecology can dramatically constrain potential solutions, often enabling particular heuristics to be efficient and effective. We argue that making the intervening layer of psychology explicit resolves decades-old mysteries in the evolution of cooperation and punishment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 7% |
| Hungary | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 5 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 71% |
| Scientists | 4 | 29% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| Austria | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 26 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 52% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 7 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 10% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 January 2019.
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#122
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