Seeing Cooperation or Competition: Ecological Interactions in Cultural Perspectives

From Appeasement to Conformity Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Shame, Competition, and Cooperation

Parental care masks a density-dependent shift from cooperation to competition among burying beetle larvae

Studies of siblings have focused mainly on their competitive interactions and to a lesser extent on their cooperation. However, competition and cooperation are at opposite ends on a continuum of possible interactions and the nature of these interactions may be flexible with ecological factors tipping the balance toward competition in some environments and cooperation in others. Here we show tha...

Cooperation: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives

Putting a competitive squeeze on a cooperative group has long been considered to encourage cheats. Now we learn that competition, by driving diversification among cooperators, can create groups that are both more productive and more resistant to defection.

Cooperation and Competition with Hyperscanning Methods: Review and Future Application to Emotion Domain

Cooperation and competition, as two common and opposite examples of interpersonal dynamics, are thought to be reflected by different cognitive, neural, and behavioral patterns. According to the conventional approach, they have been explored by measuring subjects' reactions during individual performance or turn-based interactions in artificial settings, that don't allow on-line, ecological enact...

Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis.

Nicholas Humphrey's social intelligence hypothesis proposed that the major engine of primate cognitive evolution was social competition. Lev Vygotsky also emphasized the social dimension of intelligence, but he focused on human primates and cultural things such as collaboration, communication and teaching. A reasonable proposal is that primate cognition in general was driven mainly by social co...