Attractiveness and Cooperation in Social Exchange

Punishment, Cooperation, and Cheater Detection in "Noisy" Social Exchange

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish non-cooperators or cheaters. The experimental evidence comes from public goods games in which group members are fully informed about the behavior of all ot...

Social Attractiveness in Dialogs

This study investigates how acoustic and lexical properties of spontaneous speech in dialogs affect perceived social attractiveness in terms of speaker likeability, friendliness, competence, and self-confidence. We analyze a database of longer spontaneous dialogs between German female speakers and the mutual ratings that dialog partners assigned to one another after every conversation. Thus the...

Physical attractiveness and cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game

a r t i c l e i n f o The modulating role of age on the relationship between physical attractiveness and cooperativeness in a prisoner's dilemma game (PDG) was investigated. Previous studies have shown that physical attractiveness is negatively related to cooperative choices among young men but not young women. Following the argument that the negative relationship between physical attractivenes...

Social Exchange and Coalition in Intra-Group Cooperation and Inter-Group Competition

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...