Sharing ethnographic love

Love Thy Neighbor: Sharing and Cooperativity in the Gut Microbiota.

To persist in the competitive gastrointestinal ecosystem, microbes often enforce selfish strategies that limit resource loss to neighboring bacteria. In contrast, a recent study in Nature by Rakoff-Nahoum et al. (2016) reveals that one commensal bacterium releases nutrients to benefit another species, which reciprocally provides growth-promoting factors to the producer.

Gifting Technologies – Ethnographic Studies of End-users and Social Media Sharing

Winners love winning and losers love money.

Salience and satisfaction are important factors in determining the comparisons that people make. We hypothesized that people make salient comparisons first, and then make satisfying comparisons only if salient comparisons leave them unsatisfied. This hypothesis suggests an asymmetry between winning and losing. For winners, comparison with a salient alternative (i.e., losing) brings satisfaction...

Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...

Love thy neighbour? Evidence from ethnic discrimination in information sharing within villages in Côte d’Ivoire

There is an increasing amount of evidence that suggests that a fundamental source of information for farmers on how to access and use new agricultural technologies comes from observing their neighbours. Economic research on adoption of innovations in a rural context has only partially addressed the issue of how the social structure of a village can a¤ect adoption and the ...nal impact on produc...