Why We Cooperate
Why We Cooperate Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. Through…
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Why We Cooperate
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally--and uniquely--cooperative. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues.
As children grow, their almost reflexive desire to help--without expectation of reward--becomes shaped by culture. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to work together and share, but choose not to. They become more aware of being a member of a group.
Groups convey mutual expectations, and thus may either encourage or discourage altruism and collaboration. Either way, cooperation emerges as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned
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