We present evidence supporting strong reciprocity as a schema for predicting and understanding altruism in humans. We show that under conditions plausibly characteristic of the early stages of human evolution, a small number of strong reciprocators could invade a population of self-regarding types, ...
Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans Recent experimental research has revealed forms of human behavior involving interaction among unrelated individuals that have proven difficult to explain i... H Gintis,S Bowles,R Boyd,... - 《Evolution & Human Behavior》 被引量: 1724发表: 2003年 Precis of...
"Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans." Evolution and Human Behavior 24 (3): 153-172.Gintis, Herbert, Bowles, Samuel, Boyd, Robert, and Fehr, Ernst (2003), "Explaining Altruistic Behavior in Humans," Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(2), 153-172....
The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefitsExplaining altruistic behavior in humansdoi:10.1016/s1090-5138(02)00157-5Herbert GintisSamuel BowlesRobert BoydErnst Fehr
I also argue that actual altruistic behavior often goes beyond the kind of behavior humans have evolved to display. Conscious and voluntary reasoning processes, I show, have an important role in altruistic behavior. This is often overlooked in the scientific literature on human altruism....
Humans often behave altruistically towards strangers with no chance of reciprocation. From an evolutionary perspective, this is puzzling. The evolution of