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SYNTHESE
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Conformity is an often criticized feature of human belief formation. Although generally regarded as a negative influence on reliability, it has not been widely studied. This paper...
CMOT
1999
13 years 6 months ago
1999
This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural...
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We study the evolution of cooperation using the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a metaphor of the tensions between cooperators and non-cooperators, and evolutionary game theory as the ...
CMOT
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
This contribution investigates the function of emotion in relation to norms, both in natural and artificial societies. We illustrate that unintentional behavior can be normative an...
GECCO
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
2011
Springer
The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...