Dangerous but contagious altruism: recruitment of group members and reform of cooperation style through altruism in two modified versions of Hammond and Axelrod's simulation of ethnocentric cooperation

This paper explores the possibility of recruiting other agents to one's own kind and changing their cooperation style to one's own through altruistic generosity in a simulation. This is done by modifying Ross Hammond and Robert Axelrod's well-known simulation, which shows that ethnoce...

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Main Author: Roitto, Rikard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2016
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 154-168
Further subjects:B Social influence
B Proselytism
B Religion
B Ethnocentrism
B Altruism
B cognitive contagion
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