Martin A Nowak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1752314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin A Nowak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nowak |
| SIGNATURE | NOWAK M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5489-0908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evolution of resistance to Covid-19 vaccination with dynamic social distancing
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity
Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies
An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism
Invisible inequality leads to punishing the poor and rewarding the rich
Four experiments examine how lack of awareness of inequality affect behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In Experiments 2 and 3, participants who played a public goods game – and were assigned incomes reflective of the US income distribution either at random or on merit – p…
Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity
The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds
Conjoining uncooperative societies facilitates evolution of cooperation
Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation
Cooperating with the future
Religious motivations for cooperation: An experimental investigation using explicit primes
The role of religion in human cooperation remains a highly contested topic. Recent studies using economic game experiments to explore this issue have been largely inconclusive, yielding a range of conflicting results. In this study, we investigate the ability of religion to promote cooperation by using explicit theological primes. In the first study, conducted in a church, we find that subjects who report a stronger connection with a Christian pa…
Human cooperation
Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
Super cooperators: Evolution, Altruism and Huamn Behaviour or Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Everyone is familiar with Darwin's revolutionary idea about the survival of the fittest, and most people agree that it works, but Darwin's famous theory has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence.…
Positive Interactions Promote Public Cooperation
Carrots Are Better Than Sticks The challenge of dealing with freeloaders—who benefit from a common good but refuse to pay their “fair share” of the costs—has often been met in theoretical and laboratory studies by sanctioning costly punishment, in which contributors pay a portion of their benefit so that freeloaders lose theirs. Rand et al. (p. 1272 ; see the news story by Pennisi and the cover) added a private interaction session after each roun…
The logic of indirect speech
When people speak, they often insinuate their intent indirectly rather than stating it as a bald proposition. Examples include sexual come-ons, veiled threats, polite requests, and concealed bribes. We propose a three-part theory of indirect speech, based on the idea that human communication involves a mixture of cooperation and conflict. First, indirect requests allow for plausible deniability, in which a cooperative listener can accept the requ…
Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation
Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization. Genomes, cells, multicellular organisms, social insects, and human society are all based on cooperation. Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another. But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work. Here I discuss five mechanisms for the evolut…
Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life
Evolution of indirect reciprocity
The Mathematical Biology of Human Infections
"Humans are constant victims of infectious diseases. Biomedical research during this century has led to important insights into the molecular details of immune defense. Yet, many questions relating to disease require a quantitative understanding of the complex systems that arise from the nonlinear interactions between populations of immune cells and infectious agents. Exploration of such questions has lead to a newly emerging field of mathematica…
Automata and Inner States for Repeated Games
Habitat destruction and the extinction debt
Conjoining uncooperative societies facilitates evolution of cooperation
Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity
Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies
The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds
Invisible inequality leads to punishing the poor and rewarding the rich
Four experiments examine how lack of awareness of inequality affect behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In Experiments 2 and 3, participants who played a public goods game – and were assigned incomes reflective of the US income distribution either at random or on merit – p…
Habitat destruction and the extinction debt
Automata and Inner States for Repeated Games
The Mathematical Biology of Human Infections
"Humans are constant victims of infectious diseases. Biomedical research during this century has led to important insights into the molecular details of immune defense. Yet, many questions relating to disease require a quantitative understanding of the complex systems that arise from the nonlinear interactions between populations of immune cells and infectious agents. Exploration of such questions has lead to a newly emerging field of mathematica…
Evolution of indirect reciprocity
Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation
Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization. Genomes, cells, multicellular organisms, social insects, and human society are all based on cooperation. Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another. But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work. Here I discuss five mechanisms for the evolut…
Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life
The logic of indirect speech
When people speak, they often insinuate their intent indirectly rather than stating it as a bald proposition. Examples include sexual come-ons, veiled threats, polite requests, and concealed bribes. We propose a three-part theory of indirect speech, based on the idea that human communication involves a mixture of cooperation and conflict. First, indirect requests allow for plausible deniability, in which a cooperative listener can accept the requ…
Positive Interactions Promote Public Cooperation
Carrots Are Better Than Sticks The challenge of dealing with freeloaders—who benefit from a common good but refuse to pay their “fair share” of the costs—has often been met in theoretical and laboratory studies by sanctioning costly punishment, in which contributors pay a portion of their benefit so that freeloaders lose theirs. Rand et al. (p. 1272 ; see the news story by Pennisi and the cover) added a private interaction session after each roun…
Super cooperators: Evolution, Altruism and Huamn Behaviour or Why We Need Each Other to Succeed
Everyone is familiar with Darwin's revolutionary idea about the survival of the fittest, and most people agree that it works, but Darwin's famous theory has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence.…
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
Human cooperation
Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation
Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation
Cooperating with the future
Religious motivations for cooperation: An experimental investigation using explicit primes
The role of religion in human cooperation remains a highly contested topic. Recent studies using economic game experiments to explore this issue have been largely inconclusive, yielding a range of conflicting results. In this study, we investigate the ability of religion to promote cooperation by using explicit theological primes. In the first study, conducted in a church, we find that subjects who report a stronger connection with a Christian pa…
Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity
The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds
Conjoining uncooperative societies facilitates evolution of cooperation
Invisible inequality leads to punishing the poor and rewarding the rich
Four experiments examine how lack of awareness of inequality affect behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In Experiments 2 and 3, participants who played a public goods game – and were assigned incomes reflective of the US income distribution either at random or on merit – p…
Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies
An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity
Evolution of resistance to Covid-19 vaccination with dynamic social distancing
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Microeconomics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Biology (7 works)