Evolution of in-group favoritism

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fu, Feng ^a,b   Tarnita, Corina E ^a,d,e   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a,b   Wang, Long ^c   Rand, David G ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^a,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTERGROUP BIAS; MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869199072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00460     Document Type: Article

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