Alexander, J McKenzie 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2663-6993
(2005)
The evolutionary foundations of strong reciprocity.
Analyse and Kritik: Zeitschrift fur Sozialtheorie.
pp. 106-112.
ISSN 0171-5860
Abstract
Abstract: Strong reciprocators possess two behavioural dispositions: they are willing to bestow bene ts on those who have bestowed bene ts, and they are willing to punish those who fail to bestow bene ts according to some social norm. There is no doubt that peoples' behaviour, in many cases, agrees with what we would expect if people are strong reciprocators, and Fehr and Henrich argue that many people are, in fact, strong reciprocators. They also suggest that strongly reciprocal behaviour may be brought about by specialised cognitive architecture produced by evolution. I argue that specialised cognitive architecture can play a role in the production of strongly reciprocal behaviour only in a very attenuated sense, and that the evolutionary foundations of strong reciprocity are more likely cultural than biological.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/en/about_ak.php |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 Analyse and Kritik. |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2715 |
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