In this paper, instead of asking the origin of cooperation, we consider the enhancement of cooperation in a small already cooperative society. We ask whether cooperative behavior is further promoted in a small cooperative society in which social penalty is devised. We analyze hawk-dove game and ...
Given the high fitness costs of inbreeding, evolutionary biologists have found it challenging to understand the persistence of these inbred societies in nature. One appealing but untested explanation is that early life care may create a benign environment that offsets inbreeding depression, allowing ...
For example, in a family, parents and other kin monitor a child’s behavior and transmit the norms, values, and language of a culture to the child. By doing this, they help the child fit into the society, which is the final objective of socialization. Affection and companionship is the ...
Urban Cooperative Banks in India The 1st urban cooperative credit society of India was “Anyonya Sahakari Mandali,” established in 1889 in Baroda. UCBs are governed by a board of directors elected by their members and operate on a cooperative principle, where each member has equal voting right...
Cooperative behavior patterns function best in a larger paradigm which assures people that no group “comes out on top” to the detriment of others. Society is challenged to develop cooperative behavior patterns which adapt to the global ecosystem. The ecosystem, interacting with society, is a ...
Understanding the factors underlying the evolution of pathogen host range is therefore of critical importance in protecting human health. There are two main evolutionary routes to generalism: organisms can tolerate multiple environments or they can modify their environments to forms to which they are ...
Housing cooperatives are the organizations among others, which have played important roles in meeting the housing needs of people. In Nigeria, housing finance is through the formal and informal institutions; and personal residences accounted between 75 and 90 per cent of household wealth, that represe...
(Bronstein & Reihlen,2014; Stolze,2021). Furthermore, the EU serves as both a knowledge producer and mobilizer that disseminates knowledge to wider society and provides an atmosphere in which participants in the university ecosystem create and capture value that matters for the future. The ...
When deciding where to visit next while traveling in a group, people have to make a trade-off in an interactive group recommender system between (a) disclo
at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange” (Grice, 1989, p. 26) in which they are engaged. The “Cooperative Principle” encompasses a number of maxims such as “Avoid obscurity”, “Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence...