Why We Cooperate

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she''s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally--and uniquely--cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to work together and share, but choose not to. As children grow, their almost reflexive desire to help--without expectation of reward--becomes shaped by culture. They become more aware of being a member of a group. Groups convey mutual expectations, and thus may either encourage or discourage altruism and collaboration. Either way, cooperation emerges as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. In

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Michael Tomasello; Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth S. Spelke

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carol Dweck, Dweck Carol, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Michael Tomasello, Tomasello Michael
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 19.05.2026
• EAN: 9780262053945
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05394-5
• Seiten: 232
• Serie: Boston Review Books
• Themen: Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Psychologie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology