Calculating Cooperation
Study finds less cooperation among women than among men where hierarchy is involved
Reward for Cooperative Behavior
Rewards only promote cooperation if the other person also learns about them
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For Cooperative Teams, Modesty Leaves the Best Impression
People who signal status appear self-interested
Prisoner's Dilemma Game Reveals Cooperation Leads to Leadership
Scientists revisit a well-studied philosophical scenario to explore hierarchy within cooperation
Mice Prefer Rules over Fights
Mice resolve conflicts by observing 'social rules' to enhance long-term mutual benefits
Azure-Winged Magpies Show Human-Like Generosity
"Our results seem to support the hypothesis that raising offspring cooperatively may have promoted the emergence of prosocial tendencies not only in humans, but also in other animals."
Building a Better Rat Maze Could Help Us All Cooperate
The maze constructed by the researchers was designed with fully automated features and video tracking to avoid some of the other experimental pitfalls of earlier mazes
Chimpanzees Choose Cooperation over Competition
Finding challenges the perceptions humans are unique in our ability to cooperate and chimpanzees are overly competitive, and suggests the roots of human cooperation are shared with other primates
Some Scientists Share Better Than Others
Some scientists share better than others. While astronomers and geneticists embrace the concept, the culture of ecology still has a ways to go.
Minimizing Employee Uncertainty Key Challenge for CEOs
In a tough economic environment dominated by increased competition for jobs, minimizing uncertainty has become a key challenge for chief executives.
'Evolution Will Punish You if You're Selfish and Mean'
Two Michigan State University evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn’t favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012.