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Humans prefer to copy success rather than the social norm in a cooperative game

2021-03-05

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<p>It is often claimed that human cooperation is special, and can only be explained by gene-culture co-evolution favouring a desire to follow pro-social norms. If this is true then individuals should be motivated to both observe, and copy, common social behaviours (social norms). Previous economic experiments, using the public goods game, have suggested individuals are motivated to follow social norms. However, na...

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Literature Corpus work: e37523e4-2da8-5ccd-8a25-cc97e3fd8342
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/uj9yw

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