The Evolution of Contingent Cooperation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2219266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Gurven (0000-0002-5661-527X, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 185-192 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/499552 |
| OpenAlex | W2112579533 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 34 |
Reciprocal altruism has been proposed as a foundation of cooperation in humans. The core feature of reciprocity is the contingent relationship between acts of giving and receiving among social partners. However, contingency has remained largely an elusive concept with little empirical scrutiny. Food sharing in smallscale, nonmarket societies is a classic context for examining conditional cooperation. The debate concerning whether food sharing is a crucial component of household provisioning or a form of display geared toward personal benefit hinges on whether food is given conditionally. Several forms of contingency are defined here, and it is shown that a significant contingency relationship exists in food exchange among two groups of forageragriculturalists, the Ache of Paraguay and the Hiwi of Venezuela. Exchange imbalances tend to favor lowerproducing families, close kin, and nearby neighbors. These results have implications for understanding fairness in forager societies
Altruism (biology · Context (archaeology · Contingency · Economics · Geography · Political science · Positive economics · Provisioning · Reciprocal altruism · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Scrutiny · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Physical attractiveness and cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game
Reciprocal altruism, rather than kin selection, maintains nepotistic food transfers on an Ache reservation
Our better nature
The development of contingent reciprocity in children
A friend in need is a friend indeed
Parental Presence and Encouragement Do Not Influence Helping in Young Children
Contingent Reciprocity
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers
A tale of two pandemics
What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers
Children recognize and reject favoritism in norm enforcement
The role of privacy concerns in the sharing economy
Non-Directed Self-Disclosure in the Blogosphere
What's mine is yours (for a nominal fee) – Exploring the spectrum of utilitarian to altruistic motives for Internet-mediated sharing
Foundations of cooperation in young children
Indigenous Siberians solve collective action problems through sharing and traditional knowledge
Hunter-gatherers on the best-seller list
The Evolution of Hazing
Cooperation and Collective Action in the Cultural Evolution of Complex Societies
The more-than-economic dimensions of cooperation in food production
Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life‐Course in the Bolivian Amazon
Experience facilitates the emergence of sharing behavior among 7.5-month-old infants
Being biased against friends to appear unbiased
Using Multilevel Models to Estimate Variation in Foraging Returns
Competitive Altruism Explains Labor Exchange Variation in a Dominican Community
Induced Altruism in Religious, Military, and Terrorist Organizations
Banking on cooperation
Hunting, social status and biological fitness
Interhousehold Meat Sharing among Mayangna and Miskito Horticulturalists in Nicaragua
Revisiting Psychological Mechanisms in the Anthropology of Altruism
Food-Sharing Networks in Lamalera, Indonesia
Meal sharing among the Ye'kwana
Political Alliance Formation and Cooperation Networks in the Utah State Legislature
The Relative Importance of "Cooperative Context" and Kinship in Structuring Cooperative Behavior
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers
Pourquoi coopérer
Learning "Merit" in a Chinese Preschool
Who Helps and Why
Moving beyond Stereotypes of Men's Foraging Goals
Sharing
Why Do Men Hunt
Archaeological markers of agricultural risk management
Who Sees What as Fair? Mapping Individual Differences in Valuation of Reciprocity, Charity, and Impartiality
Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing
“It's a Wonderful Life”
To give and to give not
Hadza meat sharing
Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange
Passions within Reason
Turtle hunting and tombstone opening
A theory of human life history evolution
Diet choice, risk, and food sharing in a stochastic environment
Cooperation and conflict
Vertebrate Predation and Food-Sharing in Cebus and Pan
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work
How to Cope with Noise in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
Reservation food sharing among the Ache of Paraguay
Altruistic cooperation during foraging by the Ache, and the evolved human predisposition to cooperate
A proximate perspective on reciprocal altruism
Tolerated theft, suggestions about the ecology and evolution of sharing, hoarding and scrounging
From Forest to Reservation
On Why Male Foragers Hunt and Share Food
Food Transfers Among Hiwi Foragers of Venezuela
| Citations per year | 2.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |