Terence C Burnham
Biographic Data
| ID | 172316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terence C Burnham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terence C |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnham |
| SIGNATURE | BURNHAM T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chapman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2752-8510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender, Punishment, and Cooperation
A laboratory experiment reports on gender, cooperation, and punishment in two public goods games using high-powered punishment. In a public goods games with punishment, no statistically significant differences between men and women are reported. In a modified game that includes an explicit payoff for relative performance, men punish more than women, men obtain higher rank, and punishment by males decreases payoffs for both men and women. These re…
She who understands the fruit fly would do more for economics than Adam Smith
Benefit to Another at Cost to Self
Experimental Evolution and Economics
This is a theory paper that advocates experimental evolution as a novel approach to study economic preferences. Economics could benefit because preferences are exogenous, axiomatic, and contentious. Experimental evolution allows the empirical study of preferences by placing organisms in designed environments and studying their genotype and phenotype over multiple generations. We describe a number of empirical studies on different aspects of prefe…
Engineering Human Cooperation
Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always
Testosterone (T) appears to facilitate what biologists refer to as mating effort--the investment of time and energy into same-sex competition and mate-seeking behavior. Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower T than single men, which may be due to a facultative adjustment by men of T levels in response to lower demands for mating effort. The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who…
The Biological and Evolutionary Logic of Human Cooperation
Human cooperation is held to be an evolutionary puzzle because people voluntarily engage in costly cooperation, and costly punishment of non-cooperators, even among anonymous strangers they will never meet again. The costs of such cooperation cannot be recovered through kin-selection, reciprocal altruism, indirect reciprocity, or costly signaling. A number of recent authors label this behavior ‘strong reciprocity’, and argue that it is: (a) a new…
Human male pair bonding and testosterone
Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always
Testosterone (T) appears to facilitate what biologists refer to as mating effort--the investment of time and energy into same-sex competition and mate-seeking behavior. Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower T than single men, which may be due to a facultative adjustment by men of T levels in response to lower demands for mating effort. The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who…
The Biological and Evolutionary Logic of Human Cooperation
Human cooperation is held to be an evolutionary puzzle because people voluntarily engage in costly cooperation, and costly punishment of non-cooperators, even among anonymous strangers they will never meet again. The costs of such cooperation cannot be recovered through kin-selection, reciprocal altruism, indirect reciprocity, or costly signaling. A number of recent authors label this behavior ‘strong reciprocity’, and argue that it is: (a) a new…
Engineering Human Cooperation
Human male pair bonding and testosterone
Human male pair bonding and testosterone
The Biological and Evolutionary Logic of Human Cooperation
Human cooperation is held to be an evolutionary puzzle because people voluntarily engage in costly cooperation, and costly punishment of non-cooperators, even among anonymous strangers they will never meet again. The costs of such cooperation cannot be recovered through kin-selection, reciprocal altruism, indirect reciprocity, or costly signaling. A number of recent authors label this behavior ‘strong reciprocity’, and argue that it is: (a) a new…
Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always
Testosterone (T) appears to facilitate what biologists refer to as mating effort--the investment of time and energy into same-sex competition and mate-seeking behavior. Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower T than single men, which may be due to a facultative adjustment by men of T levels in response to lower demands for mating effort. The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who…
Engineering Human Cooperation
Experimental Evolution and Economics
This is a theory paper that advocates experimental evolution as a novel approach to study economic preferences. Economics could benefit because preferences are exogenous, axiomatic, and contentious. Experimental evolution allows the empirical study of preferences by placing organisms in designed environments and studying their genotype and phenotype over multiple generations. We describe a number of empirical studies on different aspects of prefe…
Benefit to Another at Cost to Self
She who understands the fruit fly would do more for economics than Adam Smith
Gender, Punishment, and Cooperation
A laboratory experiment reports on gender, cooperation, and punishment in two public goods games using high-powered punishment. In a public goods games with punishment, no statistically significant differences between men and women are reported. In a modified game that includes an explicit payoff for relative performance, men punish more than women, men obtain higher rank, and punishment by males decreases payoffs for both men and women. These re…
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)