Altruism in networks: The effect of connections

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 651-653

  Curry, Oliver ^a   Dunbar, R I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cooperation; Friendship; Network

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80053921828     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1202     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Trivers, R. L. 1971 The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Q. Rev. Biol. 46, 35-57. (doi:10.1086/406755)
2. Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. 2005 Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. In The handbook of evolutionary psychology (ed. D. M. Buss), pp. 584-627. New York, NY: Wiley.
3. Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. 1981 The evolution of cooperation. Science 211, 1390-1396. (doi:10.1126/ science.7466396) (Pubitemid 11107890)
4. Cesarini, D., Dawes, C. T., Fowler, J. H., Johannesson, M., Lichtenstein, P. & Wallace, B. 2008 Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105, 3721-3726. (doi:10.1073/pnas. 0710069105) (Pubitemid 351723465)
5. Kurzban, R. & Houser, D. 2005 An experimental investigation of cooperative types in human groups: A complement to evolutionary theory and simulations. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102, 1803-1807. (doi:10. 1073/pnas.0408759102) (Pubitemid 40209248)
6. Curry, O. S., Price, M. E. & Price, J. G. 2008 Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates. Pers. Individ. Dif. 44, 778-783. (doi:10.1016/j.paid. 2007.09.023)
7. Kocher, M. G., Cherry, T., Kroll, S., Netzer, R. & Sutter, M. 2008 Conditional cooperation on three continents. Econ. Lett. 101, 175-178. (doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2008. 07.015)
8. Delton, A. W., Krasnow, M. M., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. 2009 Combining ancestral cue structure with direct reciprocity explains one-shot cooperation. Paper presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting. Fullerton, CA: California State University.
9. Ostrom, E. 1998 A behavioral approach to the rational choice theory of collective action. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 92, 1-22. (doi:10.2307/2585925) (Pubitemid 128037763)
10. Bateson, M., Nettle, D. & Roberts, G. 2006 Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting. Biol. Lett. 2, 412-414. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006. 0509) (Pubitemid 44387375)
11. Haley, K. J. & Fessler, D. M. T. 2005 Nobody's watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an anonymous economic game. Evol. Hum. Behav. 26, 245-256. (doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.01.002) (Pubitemid 40587391)
12. Fehr, E. & Gächter, S. 2002 Altruistic punishment in humans. Nature 415, 137-140. (doi:10.1038/415137a) (Pubitemid 34059509)
13. Price, M. E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. 2002 Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device. Evol. Hum. Behav. 23, 203-231. (doi:10.1016/S1090- 5138(01)00093-9) (Pubitemid 34451881)
14. Buskens, V. 2002 Social networks and trust. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
15. Gambetta, D. (ed) 1988 Trust: Making and breaking cooperative relations. New York, NY: Basil Blackwell.
16. Nowak, M. A. & Sigmund, K. 1998 Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring. Nature 393, 573-577. (doi:10.1038/31225) (Pubitemid 28319245)
17. Goeree, J. K.,McConnell,M.A.,Mitchell,T.,Tromp,T.& Yariv, L. 2009The 1/d lawof giving.Am. Econ. J.Microcon. 2, 183-203.
18. Fowler, J. H. & Christakis, N. A. 2010 Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 5334-5338. (doi:10.1073/pnas. 0913149107)
19. Uehara, E. 1990 Dual exchange theory, social networks, and informal social support. Am. J. Sociol. 96, 521-557. (doi:10.1086/229571)
20. Plickert, G., Cote, R. R. &Wellman, B. 2007 It's not who you know, it's how you know them: Who exchanges what with whom? Soc. Netw. 29, 405-429. (doi:10.1016/j. socnet.2007.01.007)
21. Rammstedt, B. & John, O. P. 2007 Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five inventory in English and German. J. Res. Pers. 41, 203-212. (doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001)
22. Buss, D. M. 1991 Evolutionary personality psychology. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 42, 459-491. (doi:10.1146/ annurev.ps.42.020191.002331)
23. Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. 1992 Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (eds J. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby), pp. 163-228. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
24. Kameda, T., Takezawa, M., Tindale, R. S. & Smith, C. M. 2002 Social sharing and risk reduction: Exploring a computational algorithm for the psychology of windfall gains. Evol. Hum. Behav. 23, 11-33. (doi:10.1016/ S1090-5138(01)00086-1) (Pubitemid 34077558)
25. Gintis, H., Smith, E. A. & Bowles, S. 2001 Costly signaling and cooperation. J. Theor. Biol. 213, 103-119. (doi:10.1006/jtbi.2001.2406) (Pubitemid 33052302)