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The role of threats in animal cooperation
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- The Royal Society, 2010.
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Abstract
- In human societies, social behaviour is strongly influenced by threats of punishment, even though the threats themselves rarely need to be exercised. Recent experimental evidence suggests that similar hidden threats can promote cooperation and limit within-group selfishness in some animal systems. In other animals, however, threats appear to be ineffective. Here I review theoretical and empirical studies that help to understand the evolutionary causes of these contrasting patterns, and identify three factors—impact, accuracy and perception—that together determine the effectiveness of threats to induce cooperation.
- Subjects :
- cooperative breeding
genetic structures
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mutualism
Social behaviour
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
within-group conflict
Empirical research
Game Theory
Punishment
negotiation
reproductive skew
Selfishness
Animals
Cooperative Behavior
Social Behavior
Review Articles
General Environmental Science
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General Immunology and Microbiology
Behavior, Animal
Environmental ethics
General Medicine
biparental care
Negotiation
Cooperative behavior
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Psychology
Game theory
Social psychology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14712954 and 09628452
- Volume :
- 278
- Issue :
- 1703
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e5e0d023ba45330ed2f9d6ae1bc4f42