Theology and evolutionary anthropology—Dialogues on wisdom, humility, and grace. CeliaDeane‐Drummond and AgustínFuentes. Routledge, 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey K. McKee
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

Emergent Cultural Differences in Online Communities’ Norms of Fairness

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pontus Strimling ◽  
Seth Frey
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
World Of Warcraft ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Multiplayer Games ◽  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Social Contracts

Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to theories from economic game theory and evolutionary anthropology, communities that are otherwise identical can spontaneously develop emergent cultural differences. We demonstrate the emergence of norm diversity in comparable populations distributed across identical copies of a single multiplayer game world. We use 2006 data from several servers of World of Warcraft to analyze how social contracts about resource distribution converge within independent communities, while varying across them. We find wide-ranging diversity in the norms that communities consider standard, fair, and common, even where these norms are unenforcable and players face large incentives to deviate from them. By documenting how designed societies come to differ in undesigned ways, we present emergent cultural diversity as a distinguishing feature of human sociality and a major challenge for game designers.

scholarly journals Modernizing Evolutionary Anthropology

Human Nature ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhán M. Mattison ◽  
Rebecca Sear
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology

¿Por qué pensar la resiliencia a la luz de la antropología evolutiva?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Jesús Mauricio Castaño Mosquera ◽  
Julián Andrés Lasprilla Burbano
Keyword(s):  
Research Direction ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Lumen Gentium

Este artículo se elaboró a partir de la ponencia realizada en el Primer Congreso de Psicología Unicatólica: “La psicología en las ciencias sociales y humanas”, producto del trabajo de investigación vinculado al proyecto Antropología evolutiva, resiliencia y empatía, patrocinado por la dirección de investigaciones de la Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium (septiembre 2017-2018).   Abstract This article was written from the conference given at the Primer Congreso de Psicología Unicatólica: “La psicología en las ciencias sociales y humanas” (Psychology in Social and Human Sciences), product of the research project Antropología evolutiva, resiliencia y empatía (Evolutionary anthropology, resilience and empathy), granted by the research direction of the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium (September 2017-2018).

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