Gavrilet
Biographic Data
| ID | 47236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavrilet |
| FAMILY NAME | Gavrilet |
| SIGNATURE | GAVRILET |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1581-4018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social Influence and the Logic of Collective Action
Nudging or nagging: The perils of persuasion
The Field of Evolutionary Neuroscience: A Commentary on “Rethinking Norm Psychology” by Cecilia Heyes
Co-evolution of behaviour and beliefs in social dilemmas: Estimating Material, Social, Cognitive and Cultural Determinants
Understanding and predicting human cooperative behaviour and belief dynamics remains a major challenge both from the scientific and practical perspectives. Because of the complexity and multiplicity of material, social and cognitive factors involved, both empirical and theoretical work tends to focus only on some snippets of the puzzle. Recently, a mathematical theory has been proposed that integrates material, social and cognitive aspects of beh…
Disentangling material, social, and cognitive determinants of human behavior and beliefs
In social interactions, human decision-making, attitudes, and beliefs about others coevolve. Their dynamics are affected by cost-benefit considerations, cognitive processes (such as cognitive dissonance, social projecting, and logic constraints), and social influences by peers (via descriptive and injunctive social norms) and by authorities (e.g., educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, individual or group, real or fictitious…
Authority matters: Propaganda and the Coevolution of Behaviour and Attitudes
Human decision-making is controlled by various factors including material cost–benefit considerations, values and beliefs, social influences, cognitive factors and errors. Among social influences, those by external authorities (e.g. educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, etc.) are particularly important owing to their potential reach and power. To better understand the effects of ‘soft’ power of authorities we develop a unif…
Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design
Energy saving at work: Understanding the roles of normative values and perceived benefits and costs in single-person and shared offices in the United States
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Descent of Man
Coevolution of actions, personal norms and beliefs about others in social dilemmas
Human decision-making is affected by a diversity of factors including material cost–benefit considerations, normative and cultural influences, learning and conformity with peers and external authorities (e.g. cultural, religious, political, organisational). Also important are dynamically changing personal perceptions of the situation and beliefs about actions and expectations of others as well as psychological phenomena such as cognitive dissonan…
Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia
Understanding why large, complex human societies have emerged and persisted more readily in certain regions of the world than others is an issue of long-standing debate. Here, we systematically test different hypotheses involving the social and ecological factors that may ultimately promote or inhibit the formation of large, complex human societies. We employ spatially explicit statistical analyses using data on the geographical and temporal dist…
The dynamics of injunctive social norms
Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization
Significance People often ignore material costs they incur when following existing social norms. Some individuals and groups are often willing to pay extremely high costs to enact, defend, or promulgate specific values and norms that they consider important. Such behaviors, often decreasing biological fitness, represent an evolutionary puzzle. We study theoretically the evolutionary origins of human capacity to internalize and follow social norms…
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences
Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation on previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior to evolve. The model generates a series of predictions that we then test empirically in a range of special sample …
Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting
Three predictive problems bedevil our ability to foresee political crises and state breakdown: (1) how to tell when a previously stable state falls into a situation of hidden but dangerous instability; (2) how to tell, once a certain level of instability has appeared in the form of protests, riots, or regional rebellions, whether chaos will grow and accelerate into revolution or civil war, or if the protests are likely to be contained and dampen …
Evolution of Long-Term Pair-Bonding in Humans
Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies
Warfare is commonly viewed as a driving force of the process of aggregation of initially independent villages into larger and more complex political units that started several thousand years ago and quickly lead to the appearance of chiefdoms, states, and empires. Here we build on extensions and generalizations of Carneiro’s (1970) argument to develop a spatially explicit agent-based model of the emergence of early complex societies via warfare. …
The dynamics of injunctive social norms
Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting
Three predictive problems bedevil our ability to foresee political crises and state breakdown: (1) how to tell when a previously stable state falls into a situation of hidden but dangerous instability; (2) how to tell, once a certain level of instability has appeared in the form of protests, riots, or regional rebellions, whether chaos will grow and accelerate into revolution or civil war, or if the protests are likely to be contained and dampen …
Disentangling material, social, and cognitive determinants of human behavior and beliefs
In social interactions, human decision-making, attitudes, and beliefs about others coevolve. Their dynamics are affected by cost-benefit considerations, cognitive processes (such as cognitive dissonance, social projecting, and logic constraints), and social influences by peers (via descriptive and injunctive social norms) and by authorities (e.g., educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, individual or group, real or fictitious…
Coevolution of actions, personal norms and beliefs about others in social dilemmas
Human decision-making is affected by a diversity of factors including material cost–benefit considerations, normative and cultural influences, learning and conformity with peers and external authorities (e.g. cultural, religious, political, organisational). Also important are dynamically changing personal perceptions of the situation and beliefs about actions and expectations of others as well as psychological phenomena such as cognitive dissonan…
Authority matters: Propaganda and the Coevolution of Behaviour and Attitudes
Human decision-making is controlled by various factors including material cost–benefit considerations, values and beliefs, social influences, cognitive factors and errors. Among social influences, those by external authorities (e.g. educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, etc.) are particularly important owing to their potential reach and power. To better understand the effects of ‘soft’ power of authorities we develop a unif…
Energy saving at work: Understanding the roles of normative values and perceived benefits and costs in single-person and shared offices in the United States
Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies
Warfare is commonly viewed as a driving force of the process of aggregation of initially independent villages into larger and more complex political units that started several thousand years ago and quickly lead to the appearance of chiefdoms, states, and empires. Here we build on extensions and generalizations of Carneiro’s (1970) argument to develop a spatially explicit agent-based model of the emergence of early complex societies via warfare. …
Evolution of Long-Term Pair-Bonding in Humans
Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization
Significance People often ignore material costs they incur when following existing social norms. Some individuals and groups are often willing to pay extremely high costs to enact, defend, or promulgate specific values and norms that they consider important. Such behaviors, often decreasing biological fitness, represent an evolutionary puzzle. We study theoretically the evolutionary origins of human capacity to internalize and follow social norms…
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences
Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation on previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior to evolve. The model generates a series of predictions that we then test empirically in a range of special sample …
Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting
Three predictive problems bedevil our ability to foresee political crises and state breakdown: (1) how to tell when a previously stable state falls into a situation of hidden but dangerous instability; (2) how to tell, once a certain level of instability has appeared in the form of protests, riots, or regional rebellions, whether chaos will grow and accelerate into revolution or civil war, or if the protests are likely to be contained and dampen …
Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia
Understanding why large, complex human societies have emerged and persisted more readily in certain regions of the world than others is an issue of long-standing debate. Here, we systematically test different hypotheses involving the social and ecological factors that may ultimately promote or inhibit the formation of large, complex human societies. We employ spatially explicit statistical analyses using data on the geographical and temporal dist…
The dynamics of injunctive social norms
Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design
Energy saving at work: Understanding the roles of normative values and perceived benefits and costs in single-person and shared offices in the United States
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Descent of Man
Coevolution of actions, personal norms and beliefs about others in social dilemmas
Human decision-making is affected by a diversity of factors including material cost–benefit considerations, normative and cultural influences, learning and conformity with peers and external authorities (e.g. cultural, religious, political, organisational). Also important are dynamically changing personal perceptions of the situation and beliefs about actions and expectations of others as well as psychological phenomena such as cognitive dissonan…
Authority matters: Propaganda and the Coevolution of Behaviour and Attitudes
Human decision-making is controlled by various factors including material cost–benefit considerations, values and beliefs, social influences, cognitive factors and errors. Among social influences, those by external authorities (e.g. educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, etc.) are particularly important owing to their potential reach and power. To better understand the effects of ‘soft’ power of authorities we develop a unif…
Disentangling material, social, and cognitive determinants of human behavior and beliefs
In social interactions, human decision-making, attitudes, and beliefs about others coevolve. Their dynamics are affected by cost-benefit considerations, cognitive processes (such as cognitive dissonance, social projecting, and logic constraints), and social influences by peers (via descriptive and injunctive social norms) and by authorities (e.g., educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, individual or group, real or fictitious…
The Field of Evolutionary Neuroscience: A Commentary on “Rethinking Norm Psychology” by Cecilia Heyes
Co-evolution of behaviour and beliefs in social dilemmas: Estimating Material, Social, Cognitive and Cultural Determinants
Understanding and predicting human cooperative behaviour and belief dynamics remains a major challenge both from the scientific and practical perspectives. Because of the complexity and multiplicity of material, social and cognitive factors involved, both empirical and theoretical work tends to focus only on some snippets of the puzzle. Recently, a mathematical theory has been proposed that integrates material, social and cognitive aspects of beh…
Nudging or nagging: The perils of persuasion
Social Influence and the Logic of Collective Action
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works)