Cooperation In Groups

Author : Tom Tyler,Steven Blader
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134948222

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Cooperation in Groups by Tom Tyler,Steven Blader Pdf

This important new book explores the psychological motives that shape the extent and nature of people's cooperative behavior in the groups, organizations and societies to which they belong. Individuals may choose to expend a great deal of effort on promoting the goals and functioning of the group, they may take a passive role, or they may engage in behaviors targeted towards harming the group and its goals. Such decisions have important implications for the group's functioning and viability, and the goal of this book is to understand the factors that influence these choices.

Author : Tom Tyler,Steven Blader
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134948291

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Cooperation in Groups by Tom Tyler,Steven Blader Pdf

This important new book explores the psychological motives that shape the extent and nature of people's cooperative behavior in the groups, organizations and societies to which they belong. Individuals may choose to expend a great deal of effort on promoting the goals and functioning of the group, they may take a passive role, or they may engage in behaviors targeted towards harming the group and its goals. Such decisions have important implications for the group's functioning and viability, and the goal of this book is to understand the factors that influence these choices.

Author : Robert Axelrod
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780786734887

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The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod Pdf

A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.

Author : Edwin Paul Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Conformity
ISBN : STANFORD:20501269227

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Leaders, Groups, and Influence by Edwin Paul Hollander Pdf

Author : Nichola Raihani
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250262813

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The Social Instinct by Nichola Raihani Pdf

"Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly "Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another’s offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish from another species? A biologist by training, Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behaviour most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that makes us so distinctive–and so successful.

Author : Anders Biel,Mark Snyder,Tom R. Tyler,Mark Van Vugt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135124311

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Cooperation in Modern Society by Anders Biel,Mark Snyder,Tom R. Tyler,Mark Van Vugt Pdf

Why do so many people volunteer to help others in need in society today? What makes people give up the convenience of driving their car to benefit a better environment? And why are citizens, in general, quite prepared to pay taxes to ensure adequate health care, and support for the elderly and unemployed? These are examples of a more fundamental question addressed in this book: why do people cooperate for the welfare of their community, state, or organization? Cooperation in Modern Society is a unique collection of contributions from internationally reputed scholars across the social sciences.

Author : Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz,Norman Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 052148376X

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Interaction in Cooperative Groups by Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz,Norman Miller Pdf

Interaction in Cooperative Groups brings together related research from education, developmental psychology, and social psychology in an approach that is both integrative and analytical. Its intent is to provide an understanding of the dynamics of underlying processes that are fundamental to group interaction and its outcomes. The editors have pulled together an impressive array of researchers from diverse areas within psychology and education. Many of the most exciting and currently visible research programmes are represented. This volume is a valuable resource for the professional community and will serve to initiate a long overdue unification of distinct, yet conceptually similar, areas of research.

Author : Joseph Henrich,Natalie Henrich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198041179

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Why Humans Cooperate by Joseph Henrich,Natalie Henrich Pdf

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.

Author : Antje Felgentreu
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638946063

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Communication & Cooperation: What Happens when the Group / Team is Too Large Or Too Small? by Antje Felgentreu Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Management, course: Durchführung eines konstruktivistischen Kommunikations- und Verhaltenstrainings, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The size of a group is a topic with which we each day is unconsciously occupied. If we rise e.g. after a long working day into the overcrowded bus home, then is fast conscious to us: the group is too large. If we cannot master our tasks on the job punctually, we wish ourselves reinforcement. Everyone is each day in a multiplicity of groups: Family, friends, teammate etc. nevertheless: Does it really concern thereby groups? With this question I would like to deal in chapter 2 more in greater detail. There one describes, by which components a group is characterized. Thereupon become in the 3. chapter different group sizes formally and during the process more exactly regarded. All these scenarios suggests that the group has emergent properties which go beyond the individuals who comprise it. Starting from chapter 4 I will be occupied further with the work with smaller groups. The data resulting from it can be used then likewise for the work with larger group - by the organization by sub-groups. At first we will regard, how to use small groups to promote interaction within the class as a whole. This chapter should be an assistance for understanding group phenomena and group processes. Beyond that suggestions given for the line of the group. Finally the also following phenomena are supplemented: how to use groups to syndicate discussions of questions or cases and how to use groups for substential project work. In the last chapter I give a summary and a view to the treated topic.

Author : Jean-Marie Baland,Pranab Bardhan,Samuel Bowles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691187389

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Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability by Jean-Marie Baland,Pranab Bardhan,Samuel Bowles Pdf

Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability. The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental degradation--for example, if the poor value the preservation of the environment less than the rich do, or if the consumption patterns of the poor entail proportionally greater environmental degradation than that of the rich. The contributors also find that the effect of inequality on cooperation and environmental sustainability depends critically on the economic and political institutions governing how people interact, and the technical nature of the environmental asset in question. The contributors focus on the local commons because many of the world's poorest depend on them for their livelihoods, and recent research has made great strides in showing how private incentives, group governance, and government policies might combine to protect these resources.

Author : Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135040888

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Cooperation (Psychology Revivals) by Michael Argyle Pdf

Is human nature cooperative? Man is often said to be a social animal – but what does that mean? Michael Argyle believed that one of the most important components – our capacity to cooperate – had been overlooked and indeed that the whole notion of cooperation had not been properly understood. In this book, originally published in 1991, the author showed he was critical of earlier approaches, and put forward a new and extended understanding of what cooperation consists of, showing the form it took in different relationships and its origins in evolution and socialisation. He offered new solutions to intergroup and other social problems and took a new look at language and communication as a cooperative enterprise.

Author : Charles Marsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317371953

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Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice by Charles Marsh Pdf

Modern approaches to public relations cluster into three camps along a continuum: conflict-oriented egoism, e.g. forms of contingency theory that focus almost exclusively on the wellbeing of an entity; redressed egoism, e.g. subsidies to redress PR’s egoistic nature; and forms of self-interested cooperation, e.g. fully functioning society theory. Public Relations, Cooperation, and Justice draws upon interdisciplinary research from evolutionary biology, philosophy, and rhetoric to establish that relationships built on cooperation and justice are more productive than those built on conflict and egoistic competition. Just as important, this innovative book shuns normative, utopian appeals, offering instead only empirical, materialistic evidence for its conclusions. This is a powerful, multidisciplinary, and well-documented analysis, including specific strategies for the enactment of PR as a quest for cooperation and justice, which aligns the discipline of public relations with basic human nature. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of public relations and communication ethics.

Author : Samuel S Komorita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429965845

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Social Dilemmas by Samuel S Komorita Pdf

Emphasizing real-world examples, Komorita and Parks illustrate both the theoretical and the ecological relevance of social dilemmas, focusing on "exchange theory" to explain how conflicts are resolved. This book is appropriate for students of psychology, political science, and sociology.

Author : R. Hertz-Lazarowitz,S. Kagan,S. Sharan,R. Slavin,C. Webb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489936509

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Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn by R. Hertz-Lazarowitz,S. Kagan,S. Sharan,R. Slavin,C. Webb Pdf

This book was written and edited as a project of the International Asso ciation for the Study of Cooperation in Education (lASCE). It grew di rectly out of the second conference of the lASCE, held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in [uly 1982. The chapters in the book were originally presented in some form at the Provo conference, though most have been considerably revised since that time. This is the second book sponsored by the lASCE; the first, Cooperation in Education (Provo, Utah:Brigham Young University Press, 1980), edited by Shlomo Sharan, Paul Hare, Clark Webb, and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz, was based on the proceedings of the first conference of the IASCE in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1979. The IASCE is a group of educators interested in studying, devel oping, or applying cooperative methods at various levels of the process of education. It includes researchers, teacher educators, teachers, and school administrators from more than a dozen countries.

Author : Phyllis A. Katz,Dalmas A. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489908186

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Eliminating Racism by Phyllis A. Katz,Dalmas A. Taylor Pdf

The chapters presented here provide the reader with an awareness of the divergent views of what constitutes racism and frameworks for reducing it. This book points out that the dialogue and research on this subject since the mid-1970s have yielded increased contro versy over the theories, foundation, and continued existence of racism. Ironically, what we viewed in the 1954Brown decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964as the beginning of the end of racism turned out to be the beginning of confusion over the course of action to ensure societal acceptance of political mandates. Hence, the title of this book captures the essence of the emotional core of any forum for examining racism, past and present. One of the most controversial forums has been that ofeducation, beginning with the D.S. Supreme Court's 1954ruling in Brown v. Board oi Education. Behind every event that has spawned controversy is a profile in courage. It was not a simple decision for the players in the scenario of the Brown v. Board oi Education case to step forward and present themselves as evidence of discrimination. Blackparents supported by black organizations viewed this legal action as a chance for equal opportunity. Yet, the 1950s were a time when black communities were pained by the thought that bigotry and institutional racism would forever stand in the way of their achieving equality.