Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers

Fabbri, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.11.003

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“…This idea resonates with an already consistent body of evidence in the behavioral and political sciences suggesting that shared institutions play a fundamental role in group behavior (Bowles & Gintis, 2004). Indeed, numerous lab experiments suggest that impartial and efficient sanctioning institutions can significantly increase social trust and prosocial behavior (Cassar, d'Adda, & Grosjean, 2014;Fabbri, 2022;Hruschka et al, 2014;Spadaro, Gangl, Van Prooijen, Van Lange, & Mosso, 2020). Critically for the author's perspective, fair and effective institutions can even suppress prejudice between two rival groups (Bartoš & Levely, 2021;Cassar et al, 2014;Fabbri, 2022;Lin & Packer, 2017;Van Bavel & Packer, 2021).…”

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“…Indeed, numerous lab experiments suggest that impartial and efficient sanctioning institutions can significantly increase social trust and prosocial behavior (Cassar, d'Adda, & Grosjean, 2014;Fabbri, 2022;Hruschka et al, 2014;Spadaro, Gangl, Van Prooijen, Van Lange, & Mosso, 2020). Critically for the author's perspective, fair and effective institutions can even suppress prejudice between two rival groups (Bartoš & Levely, 2021;Cassar et al, 2014;Fabbri, 2022;Lin & Packer, 2017;Van Bavel & Packer, 2021). Such institutions are usually operationalized as abstract entities that punish cheaters in lab experiments, or as state-like institutions in field studies.…”

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The evolution of peace

Glowacki¹

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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While some species have affiliative and even cooperative interactions between individuals of different social groups, humans are alone in having durable, positive-sum, interdependent relationships across unrelated social groups. Our capacity to have harmonious relationships that cross group boundaries is an important aspect of our species’ success, allowing for the exchange of ideas, materials, and ultimately enabling cumulative cultural evolution. Knowledge about the conditions required for peaceful intergroup relationships is critical for understanding the success of our species and building a more peaceful world. How do humans create harmonious relationships across group boundaries and when did this capacity emerge in the human lineage? Answering these questions involves considering the costs and benefits of intergroup cooperation and aggression, for oneself, one's group, and one's neighbor. Taking a game theoretical perspective provides new insights into the difficulties of removing the threat of war and reveals an ironic logic to peace—the factors that enable peace also facilitate the increased scale and destructiveness of conflict. In what follows, I explore the conditions required for peace, why they are so difficult to achieve, and when we expect peace to have emerged in the human lineage. I argue that intergroup cooperation was an important component of human relationships and a selective force in our species history in the past 300 thousand years. But the preconditions for peace only emerged in the past 100 thousand years and likely coexisted with intermittent intergroup violence which would have also been an important and selective force in our species’ history.

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The evolution of peace

Glowacki¹

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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“…At the societal level, trust-supporting institutions include governments, corporate structures, criminal and civil legal systems, contract law and property rights, insurance, and stock markets. When they function effectively, institutions allow for broader cooperation, helping people extend trust beyond other people they know or know of and, crucially, also beyond the boundaries of their in-groups (Fabbri, 2022;Hruschka & Henrich, 2013;Rothstein & Stolle, 2008;Zucker, 1986). Conversely, when these sorts of structures do not function well, "institutional distrust strips away a basic sense that one is protected from exploitation, thus reducing trust between strangers, which is at the core of functioning societies" (van Prooijen, Spadaro, & Wang, 2022).…”

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“…An ambitious field study, which took advantage of land rights reforms in Benin, found a clear causal impact of institutions on national cooperation (Fabbri, 2022).…”

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How neurons, norms, and institutions shape group cooperation

Bavel

Pärnamets

Reinero

et al. 2022

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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“…This idea resonates with an already consistent body of evidence in the behavioral and political sciences suggesting that shared institutions play a fundamental role in group behavior (Bowles & Gintis, 2004). Indeed, numerous lab experiments suggest that impartial and efficient sanctioning institutions can significantly increase social trust and prosocial behavior (Cassar, d'Adda, & Grosjean, 2014; Fabbri, 2022; Hruschka et al, 2014; Spadaro, Gangl, Van Prooijen, Van Lange, & Mosso, 2020). Critically for the author's perspective, fair and effective institutions can even suppress prejudice between two rival groups (Bartoš & Levely, 2021; Cassar et al, 2014; Fabbri, 2022; Lin & Packer, 2017; Van Bavel & Packer, 2021).…”

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Cultural technologies for peace may have shaped our social cognition

Sijilmassi,

Safra,

Baumard

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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Peace, the article shows, is achieved by culturally evolved institutions that incentivize positive-sum relationships. We propose that this insight has important consequences for the design of human social cognition. Cues that signal the existence of such institutions should play a prominent role in detecting group membership. We show how this accounts for previous findings and suggest avenues for future research.

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Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers

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The evolution of peace

The evolution of peace

How neurons, norms, and institutions shape group cooperation

Cultural technologies for peace may have shaped our social cognition

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