Experiments In Cooperation

Author : Gerald Marwell
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483274764
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooperation written by Gerald Marwell and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis presents the results of an experimental analysis that sought to identify the factors that inhibit, maintain, or promote cooperation. Two of these factors are given particular attention: inequity and interpersonal risk between potential cooperators. Using a molar approach, the book applies some of the key methodological and theoretical insights of behavioral analysis to a group response that reflects the main conceptual characteristics of cooperation. The extent to which this behavioral response could be controlled by relevant environmental contingencies is also examined. Comprised of nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the concept of cooperation and the measurement and experimental design used in the study. It then summarizes the results of the first experiments that focus on the link between inequity and cooperation, followed by a discussion on the effect of interpersonal risk on cooperation. Subsequent chapters focus on the role of protection and communication in promoting cooperation despite the presence of risk; the effects of the relationships between partners on the likelihood of cooperating under risk; and how a strategy of "pacifism" could facilitate cooperation. The final chapter summarizes the results of the experiments. This monograph will be of interest to social psychologists and sociologists.

Author : Robert Axelrod
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786734884
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Cooperation written by Robert Axelrod and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.

Author : Whitman Richards
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262527782
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anigrafs written by Whitman Richards and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative proposal for understanding how mental organisms make decisions and control behavior.

Author : Vincent Buskens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110647613
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in the Sociology of Trust and Cooperation written by Vincent Buskens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of cooperation is one of the core issues in sociology and social science more in general. The key question is how humans, groups, organizations, institutions, and countries can avoid or overcome the collective good dilemmas that could lead to a Hobbesian "war of all against all". The chapters in this book provide state of the art examples of research on this crucial topic. These include theoretical, laboratory, and field studies on trust and cooperation, thereby approaching the issue in three complementary and synergetic ways. The theoretical work covers articles on trust and control, reputation formation, and paradigmatic articles on the benefits and caveats of abstracting reality into models. The laboratory studies test the implications of different models of trust and reputation, such as the effects of social and institutional embeddedness and the potentially emerging inequalities this may cause. The field studies test these implications in applied settings such as business purchasing and supply, informal care, and different kinds of collaboration networks. This book is exemplary for rigorous social science. The focus is on effects of social conditions, in particular different forms of social and institutional embeddedness, on social outcomes at the macro level. Modelling efforts are applied to connect social conditions to social outcomes through micro-level behavior in ways that are easily overlooked when argumentation is intuitive and impressionistic. The book sets forth a mixed-method approach by applying different empirical methods to test hypotheses about similar questions. Several contributions re-evaluate the theoretical strengths and weaknesses following from the laboratory and field studies. Improving the theory in light of these findings facilitates pushing the boundaries of social science .

Author : Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135040885
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooperation (Psychology Revivals) written by Michael Argyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is human nature cooperative? Man is often said to be a social animal – but what does that mean? Michael Argyle believed that one of the most important components – our capacity to cooperate – had been overlooked and indeed that the whole notion of cooperation had not been properly understood. In this book, originally published in 1991, the author showed he was critical of earlier approaches, and put forward a new and extended understanding of what cooperation consists of, showing the form it took in different relationships and its origins in evolution and socialisation. He offered new solutions to intergroup and other social problems and took a new look at language and communication as a cooperative enterprise.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on Agricultural Experiment Stations and Cooperative Agricultural Extension Wotk in the United States for the Year Ended ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Hammerstein
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262083263
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation written by Peter Hammerstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Glenn E. Schweitzer
Publisher : Twentieth Century Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments in Cooperation written by Glenn E. Schweitzer and published by Twentieth Century Foundation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Experiments in Cooperation, the third book in the Twentieth Century Fund's Russia in Transition series, Glenn E. Schweitzer examines the recent history of U.S.-Russian scientific and technological collaboration.

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Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3736938179
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments on the Fragility of Cooperation and Mechanisms to Overcome this Problem written by and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In experimental economics cooperation is frequently modeled by a so-called public-good design. This design tries to depict the problem that cooperation is benefi cial for every participant but that there are individual incentives to free-ride, i.e., to invest no personal effort to increase the common welfare. In public-good experiments cooperation usually breaks down due to imperfect conditional cooperation if measures like sanction possibilities, reputation-building or communication are absent. We contribute to the literature in a number of ways. For example we introduce a new dynamic public-good design to analyze whether subjects behave differently when they do not receive new resources in a multiperiod public-good design. We further provide a monitoring mechanism that mitigates the free-riding problem, in the fi rst study with a linear and in a second study with a non-linear production function. However, the costly implementation of the monitoring in itself represents either a (second-level) step-level public-good or a second-level linear public-good in the latter case. Finally we introduce a limit on punishment.

Author : National Research Council. Subcommittee on Protein Metabolism in Animal Feeding
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Cooperative Experiments Upon the Protein Requirements for the Growth of Cattle written by National Research Council. Subcommittee on Protein Metabolism in Animal Feeding and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: