According to a new study, there are four kinds of people
According to a new study, 90% of people fall into one of four categories: optimists, pessimists, trusting or envious. Which ...
Tag: game theory
New game theory model explains why people help distant kin
Even though you shouldn't care about helping your third cousin from Wisconsin, chances have it you'll do. Now, there's a ...
How motivation influences cooperation: would you open the ‘envelope’?
Here's a question: what's the difference between actor Sean Penn and the charitable Mother Theresa? Bear with me for a ...
Generosity linked with happiness and evolutionary success
With new insights derived from Game Theory, University of Pennsylvania biologists offer a mathematically based explanation for why cooperation and ...
When the “prisoner’s dillema” is played with real prisoners: unexpected results
The prisoner's dilemma is one of the most famous paradigms and at the same time one of the most discussed ...
Humans are wired to be good in nature – cooperation outweighs selfishness
There's an age long question that even some of history's greatest free thinkers, philosophers and theologists haven't been able to ...
Bacteria wouldn’t go for a swine flu shot
Just like many categories of people, I've recently been (insistently) offered a free flu shot. I said no. Without going ...