Altruism

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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation?

On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means...

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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity – Evidence and Economic Applications

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by...

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