Ulrich Mueller
Biographic Data
| ID | 197004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrich Mueller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Mueller |
| SIGNATURE | MUELLER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2736-6494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View
Social Life and Social Knowledge
Current developmental theorizing faces a number of dilemmas, if not aporias. The three most relevant ones that provide offspring for different approaches within developmental psychology are (1) the “identity dilemma,” posing the question: how it is possible to consider oneself as the same in the face of constant change; (2) the “uniqueness dilemma”: whether it is possible to consider oneself as unique in the face of being the same as everyone els…
Executive function and the promotion of social–emotional competence
The ecology of the male life course
Introduction to Part II
Men with subnormal sperm counts live shorter lives
A lost less is known about the morbidity and mortality consequences of male infertility. It was the aim of our study to analyse the association between sperm concentration and individual lifetime mortality in men. The data sources included medical records of 601 men who attended the andrological service at the Marburg University Hospital between 1949 and 1985, and vital data gathered from public registration offices and a statutory health insuran…
Does Late Reproduction Extend the Life Span? Findings from European Royalty
Statistical associations between late reproduction and female longevity led to speculations that a late birth increases a mother's life span. The database used here includes all descendants of King George I of England (1660–1727) and his wife, Sophie Dorothea (1666–1726), born in the royal dynasties in Europe up to 1939 (n=1,672). In the era of British world supremacy, these descendants formed the uppermost layer of the European aristocracy, occu…
Is There a Stabilizing Selection Around Average Fertility in Modern Human Populations
Possibly the greatest challenge for an evolutionary explanation of demographic transition is the fact that fertility levels universally start to fall first among the well-to-do, well-educated, healthy classes, which can be explained only by some voluntary or at least adaptive action. The problem of how restraints on fertility could have evolved by natural selection has been tackled with group selection models as well as with stabilizing selection…
Umgang mit Jugenddelinquenz
Reproductive Constraints on Dominance Competition in Male Homo Sapiens
Dominance competition among males of the same group is characteristic for most primates including humans, with the outcome—rank—being positively associated with fitness. However, because we do not observe an evolutionary arms race toward hyperdominance in primate social systems, the evolution of ever more dominating behavior characteristics may be checked by increased costs in fitness to top rank. Empirical evidence for such costs, particularly i…
Social Science Microsimulation
Channel Modeling
The U.S. Army and Air Force are two of many organizations that are characterized as meritocracies, where career advancement is supposed to be determined mostly by one's ability to achieve institutional goals. Critics have long claimed, however, that promotion in a meritocracy is inevitably affected by factors separate from competence (Young, 1958). Moore and Trout (1978) contrast performance theory, which says that promotion in the military goes …
Facial Dominance of West Point Cadets as a Predictor of Later Military Rank
Journal Article Facial Dominance of West Point Cadets as a Predictor of Later Military Rank Get access Ulrich Mueller, Ulrich Mueller University of Marburg, Germany Direct correspondence to Ulrich Mueller, Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Marburg, Bunsenstrasse 2, 35033 Marburg, Germany; or [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Allan Mazur Allan Mazur Syracuse Univers…
Christianity and Socially Imposed Monogamy
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Social Dilemmas and Cooperation
Optimal Retaliation for Optimal Cooperation
There has been a growing number of theoretical as well as experimental investigations on the emergence of evolutionarily stable cooperative strategies in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. From a methodological viewpoint, investigations of this sort suffer so far from two shortcomings. The phenomenon of noise, that is, any deviation from the assumption of perfect information among the players, has been given only unsystematic consideration, if…
Individual-adjustment behavior versus group-welfare behavior
The abundance of experimental literature on real subjects' behavior in social dilemma situations with free-rider options displays a discouraging instability of results. Particularly disquieting is the divergence of results depending on whether the social dilemma is modelled as a cooperation game with a Pareto-deficient solution or as a market transaction over some public good. We argue that this divergence of experimental data unveils a serious s…
Diskussion. Kooperative Gleichgewichte und der Weg dorthin
Facial Dominance of West Point Cadets as a Predictor of Later Military Rank
Journal Article Facial Dominance of West Point Cadets as a Predictor of Later Military Rank Get access Ulrich Mueller, Ulrich Mueller University of Marburg, Germany Direct correspondence to Ulrich Mueller, Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Marburg, Bunsenstrasse 2, 35033 Marburg, Germany; or [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Allan Mazur Allan Mazur Syracuse Univers…
Optimal Retaliation for Optimal Cooperation
There has been a growing number of theoretical as well as experimental investigations on the emergence of evolutionarily stable cooperative strategies in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. From a methodological viewpoint, investigations of this sort suffer so far from two shortcomings. The phenomenon of noise, that is, any deviation from the assumption of perfect information among the players, has been given only unsystematic consideration, if…
Does Late Reproduction Extend the Life Span? Findings from European Royalty
Statistical associations between late reproduction and female longevity led to speculations that a late birth increases a mother's life span. The database used here includes all descendants of King George I of England (1660–1727) and his wife, Sophie Dorothea (1666–1726), born in the royal dynasties in Europe up to 1939 (n=1,672). In the era of British world supremacy, these descendants formed the uppermost layer of the European aristocracy, occu…
Channel Modeling
The U.S. Army and Air Force are two of many organizations that are characterized as meritocracies, where career advancement is supposed to be determined mostly by one's ability to achieve institutional goals. Critics have long claimed, however, that promotion in a meritocracy is inevitably affected by factors separate from competence (Young, 1958). Moore and Trout (1978) contrast performance theory, which says that promotion in the military goes …
Is There a Stabilizing Selection Around Average Fertility in Modern Human Populations
Possibly the greatest challenge for an evolutionary explanation of demographic transition is the fact that fertility levels universally start to fall first among the well-to-do, well-educated, healthy classes, which can be explained only by some voluntary or at least adaptive action. The problem of how restraints on fertility could have evolved by natural selection has been tackled with group selection models as well as with stabilizing selection…
Social Life and Social Knowledge
Current developmental theorizing faces a number of dilemmas, if not aporias. The three most relevant ones that provide offspring for different approaches within developmental psychology are (1) the “identity dilemma,” posing the question: how it is possible to consider oneself as the same in the face of constant change; (2) the “uniqueness dilemma”: whether it is possible to consider oneself as unique in the face of being the same as everyone els…
Umgang mit Jugenddelinquenz
Diskussion. Kooperative Gleichgewichte und der Weg dorthin
Optimal Retaliation for Optimal Cooperation
There has been a growing number of theoretical as well as experimental investigations on the emergence of evolutionarily stable cooperative strategies in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. From a methodological viewpoint, investigations of this sort suffer so far from two shortcomings. The phenomenon of noise, that is, any deviation from the assumption of perfect information among the players, has been given only unsystematic consideration, if…
Individual-adjustment behavior versus group-welfare behavior
The abundance of experimental literature on real subjects' behavior in social dilemma situations with free-rider options displays a discouraging instability of results. Particularly disquieting is the divergence of results depending on whether the social dilemma is modelled as a cooperation game with a Pareto-deficient solution or as a market transaction over some public good. We argue that this divergence of experimental data unveils a serious s…
Social Dilemmas and Cooperation
Christianity and Socially Imposed Monogamy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Social Science Microsimulation
Channel Modeling
The U.S. Army and Air Force are two of many organizations that are characterized as meritocracies, where career advancement is supposed to be determined mostly by one's ability to achieve institutional goals. Critics have long claimed, however, that promotion in a meritocracy is inevitably affected by factors separate from competence (Young, 1958). Moore and Trout (1978) contrast performance theory, which says that promotion in the military goes …
Facial Dominance of West Point Cadets as a Predictor of Later Military Rank
Journal Article Facial Dominance of West Point Cadets as a Predictor of Later Military Rank Get access Ulrich Mueller, Ulrich Mueller University of Marburg, Germany Direct correspondence to Ulrich Mueller, Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Marburg, Bunsenstrasse 2, 35033 Marburg, Germany; or [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Allan Mazur Allan Mazur Syracuse Univers…
Reproductive Constraints on Dominance Competition in Male Homo Sapiens
Dominance competition among males of the same group is characteristic for most primates including humans, with the outcome—rank—being positively associated with fitness. However, because we do not observe an evolutionary arms race toward hyperdominance in primate social systems, the evolution of ever more dominating behavior characteristics may be checked by increased costs in fitness to top rank. Empirical evidence for such costs, particularly i…
Umgang mit Jugenddelinquenz
Is There a Stabilizing Selection Around Average Fertility in Modern Human Populations
Possibly the greatest challenge for an evolutionary explanation of demographic transition is the fact that fertility levels universally start to fall first among the well-to-do, well-educated, healthy classes, which can be explained only by some voluntary or at least adaptive action. The problem of how restraints on fertility could have evolved by natural selection has been tackled with group selection models as well as with stabilizing selection…
Does Late Reproduction Extend the Life Span? Findings from European Royalty
Statistical associations between late reproduction and female longevity led to speculations that a late birth increases a mother's life span. The database used here includes all descendants of King George I of England (1660–1727) and his wife, Sophie Dorothea (1666–1726), born in the royal dynasties in Europe up to 1939 (n=1,672). In the era of British world supremacy, these descendants formed the uppermost layer of the European aristocracy, occu…
Executive function and the promotion of social–emotional competence
The ecology of the male life course
Introduction to Part II
Men with subnormal sperm counts live shorter lives
A lost less is known about the morbidity and mortality consequences of male infertility. It was the aim of our study to analyse the association between sperm concentration and individual lifetime mortality in men. The data sources included medical records of 601 men who attended the andrological service at the Marburg University Hospital between 1949 and 1985, and vital data gathered from public registration offices and a statutory health insuran…
Social Life and Social Knowledge
Current developmental theorizing faces a number of dilemmas, if not aporias. The three most relevant ones that provide offspring for different approaches within developmental psychology are (1) the “identity dilemma,” posing the question: how it is possible to consider oneself as the same in the face of constant change; (2) the “uniqueness dilemma”: whether it is possible to consider oneself as unique in the face of being the same as everyone els…
Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View
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