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How cooperative you are may depend on how quick you are to respond to a proposition, a new study finds. In a computerized game that involves contributing money to a common pool, people who took longer to think over their options were more likely to be selfish. 
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I completely accept the science of climate warming, yet I don't always do the right thing by my heirs. Why is that? The simple answer is, because I'm human. But scientists offer more nuanced insight into why it's hard to be beneficent to people of the future, even our own. The fancy name for this insight is*"intertemporal discounting," which simply means that we humans are selfish and shortsighted when it comes to using finite resources. We prefer to use our resources -- cash, oil, cool days -- for ourselves, now, in the present. And the further off in the future the beneficiaries are, the less likely we are to sacrifice for them. This is because of a failure of imagination: It's supremely difficult to project ourselves into the future, even harder to take the part of another.
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David Sloan Wilson believes that ‘multilevel selection’ sees individuals evolve to behave in a way that benefits their group, which then does better as a result. It could have important implications for business.
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The human being is compounded of a congeries of genes. These genes are responsible for the man to greatly appreciate his own well being, and greatly suffer with his own pain. They are also responsi...
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If you were a young adult Ethiopian wolf, you would have a choice to make: Should you be a member of a monogamous breeding pair or a helper to an already established breeding pair (who are probably your parents)? The choice seems obvious, right? I mean, who wants to be a helper? Why should you forgo all the glory and status of being part of the breeding pair to be a babysitter?
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A team of researchers led by Galen Bodenhausen, a professor of psychology and marketing at Northwestern University, has published the results of a new study about materialism and happiness in the journal Psychological Science. When participants were labeled as “consumers,” they were more likely to selfishly focus on their own individual consumption. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Though cellphones are usually considered devices that connect people, they may make users less socially minded, finds a recent study from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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Rand, a post-doctoral fellow in Harvard's Department of Psychology and a Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology, is the lead author of a new paper, which found that dynamic, complex social networks encourage their members to be friendlier and more cooperative, with the possible payoff coming in an expanded social sphere, while selfish behavior can lead to an individual being shunned from the group and left – literally – on their own.
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October 3, 2014 10:05 PM
An interesting take on social networks, a platform i feel has a lot of negative connotations in regards to being the soul reason our generation has lost the ability to communicate person to person.
The piece is very informative and extremely reliable, the findings were published by a Academic of Harvard's prestigious Psychology department.
The notions explored showed that dynamic, complex social networks encourage their members to be friendlier and more cooperative, with the possible payoff coming in an expanded social sphere. Which i guess in theory is only being cooperative under the guise of a reward... which i do not particularly see as credible.
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