Modelling minds as well as populations

Modelling minds as well as populations

References ml#ref-list-1 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/03/18/rspb.2011.0349.full.ht This article cites 15 articles, 6 of which can be accessed free P<P Published online 23 March 2011 in advance of the print journal. Subject collections (492 articles) cognition • Articles on similar topics can be found in the following collections Email alerting service here right-ha...

Individual Minds as Groups, Group Minds as Individuals

Minds as social institutions

I will first discuss how social interactions organize, coordinate, and specialize as “artifacts,” tools; how these tools are not only for coordination but for achieving something, for some outcome (goal/function), for a collective work. In particular, I will argue that these artifacts specify (predict and prescribe) the mental contents of the participants, both in terms of beliefs and acceptanc...

Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled

We document that the wage distribution in larger and more productive cities nearly everywhere first-order stochastically dominates that in less productive cities. This confirms earlier evidence on the city size–wage premium. Yet, because this premium reflects higher house prices, this does not necessarily imply that this stochastic dominance relation also exists in the distribution of skills. W...

Direct Reciprocity in Spatial Populations Enhances R-Reciprocity As Well As ST-Reciprocity

As is well-known, spatial reciprocity plays an important role in facilitating the emergence of cooperative traits, and the effect of direct reciprocity is also obvious for explaining the cooperation dynamics. However, how the combination of these two scenarios influences cooperation is still unclear. In the present work, we study the evolution of cooperation in 2 × 2 games via considering both ...