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Hrheingold's evolutionary_psychology Bookmarks on Delicious. Hrheingold's cooperation Bookmarks on Delicious. Main Page. A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter to introduce the fundamentals of an interdisciplinary study of cooperation: social dilemmas, institutions for collective action, the commons, evolution of cooperation, technologies of cooperation, and cooperative arrangements in biology from cells to ecosystems.

If you are interested in signing up, contact howard@rheingold.com Learning objectives About this course: Expect participative and collaborative learning Schedule Missions Live Session Notes Cooperation Patterns The Knowledge Repository from the Mind Amplification and Cooperation Literature Classes On Cooperation Theory, Social Dilemmas, and Technologies of Cooperation Week One: Social Dilemmas: Required Texts Screencast by Howard Rheingold: Introduction to Cooperation Studies Peter Kollock Social Dilemmas (video) Peter Kollock: Social Dilemmas (PDF) Howard Rheingold: Overview of cooperation theory concept map.

Available Summaries. Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation: Summaries and Findings. Although Darwin's 19th century advocates stressed the role of competition in natural selection, Darwin established speculation about cultural evolution in regard to human cooperation: "It must not be forgotten that although a high standard of morality gives but slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over other men of the tribe, yet that an increase in the number of well-endowed men and an advancement in the standard of morality will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another. A tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and t his would be natural selection.

" Culture harnesses and channels social instincts, enabling the creation of institutions. Cooperation Commons | An Introduction to Networks in the Global Village. NetLab is an interdisciplinary scholarly network studying the intersection of social networks, communication networks, and computer networks. Centered at the University of Toronto, NetLab members have come from across Canada and the United States as well as from Chile, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. NetLab has developed since 2000 from an informal network of collaborators into a far-flung virtual laboratory. Its research focuses on the interplay between social and technological links, including the understanding of social capital in job searches and business settings, new media and community, Internet and personal relations, social media, households, networked organizations, and knowledge transfer in research networks.

Where to find NetLab: NetLab43.665016, -79.399325NetLabUniversity of TorontoiSchool140 St. The stuff of thought, the myth of violence: Steven Pinker on TED. This week, Steven Pinker releases his latest book, The Stuff of Thought, about language as a window onto human nature. We present two TEDTalks from Steve Pinker: his 2005 talk at Oxford, in which he offers the TEDGlobal audience an exclusive preview of the book, and his most recent talk, at TED2007, where he previews his next topic: violence. From TEDGlobal 2005: The stuff of thought. In an exclusive preview of his latest book, Steven Pinker looks at language as a window onto human nature. In both what we say and how we say it, we’re communicating much more than we realize. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, England. Duration: 17:41.) From TED2007: A brief history of violence. Watch Steven Pinker’s talks on TED.com, where you can download them, rate them, comment and find other talks and performances. Read more about Steven Pinker on TED.com.

NEW: Read the transcripts >> Transcript: Steven Pinker TEDGlobal 2005 Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought TEDGlobal 2005, Oxford, UK TED2007, Monterey, CA. The future of cooperation — and economic growth: Exclusive interview with Alex Tabarrok. Alex Tabarrok is co-author of hit economics blog Marginal Revolution. At TED2009, he talked about how a lesson from 1929 teaches us that ideas trump economic crises.

The TED Blog interviewed Tabarrok over the phone to find out what else makes him optimistic about the future of economic development: What do you say to the argument that the Third World will not develop because we don’t have the natural resources to sustain the development? I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. The term natural resources confuses people. None of this is to say that the environment and global climate change are not a huge concern. In your talk, you called China “the world’s greatest anti-poverty program of the last few decades.”

With the death of Mao and the rise of Deng Xiao Ping, China began to grow at tremendous rates — 10 percent per year. A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. Cordell Hull, U.S. You attribute that to television? Robert Wright | Profile on TED.com. Yochai Benkler | Profile on TED.com. Daniel Kahneman | Profile on TED.com. Glossary - BASESwiki - Business and Society Exploring Solutions, a dispute resolution community. Cooperation.

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