Game theory and human evolution: a critique of some recent interpretations of experimental games

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2005.09.005zbMATH Open1117.92046OpenAlexW1985604307WikidataQ34491501 ScholiaQ34491501MaRDI QIDQ2500403FDOQ2500403

Peter Hammerstein, Edward H. Hagen

Publication date: 23 August 2006

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2005.09.005

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zbMATH Keywords

Ultimatum gameAltruismStrong reciprocityBehavioral economicsCultural group selection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Other game-theoretic models (91A40)

Cites Work

• The Logic of Animal Conflict
• A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
• The evolution of continuous variation. II: Complex transmission and assortative mating
• The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
• Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment
• Cultural and biological evolutionary processes, selection for a trait under complex transmission
• Models for cultural inheritance. I: Group mean and within group variation

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