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  • 2017

  • Singh, Manvir; Wrangham, Richard; Glowacki, Luke (2017): Self-Interest and the Design of Rules. In: Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) 28 (4), S. 457-480. DOI: 10.1007/s12110-017-9298-7

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-017-9298-7 

    Abstract: Rules regulating social behavior raise challenging questions about cultural evolution in part because they frequently confer group-level benefits. Current multilevel selection theories contend that between-group processes interact with within-group processes to produce norms and institutions, but within-group processes have remained underspecified, leading to a recent emphasis on cultural group selection as the primary driver of cultural design. Here we present the self-interested enforcement (SIE) hypothesis, which proposes that the design of rules importantly reflects the relative enforcement capacities of competing parties. We show that, in addition to explaining patterns in cultural change and stability, SIE can account for the emergence of much group-functional culture. We outline how this process can stifle or accelerate cultural group selection, depending on various social conditions. Self-interested enforcement has important bearings on the emergence, stability, and change of rules. zitiert von 5

    Keywords: Cognitive Hypothesis Testing, Interests, Kulturforschung/ kulturelle Unterschiede, rules, self-interested enforcement (SIE) hypothesis, Social Behavior, Social Norms, Verhaltensforschung

  • 2011

  • Binmore, Ken. (2011) : The origin of fairness. In: Voorhoeve, Alex: Conversations on ethics.: Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, S. 136-154

    Abstract: Ken Binmore, a leading contributor to the evolutionary theory of strategic interaction, outlines the ways in which our sense of fairness helps us coordinate with others in mutually advantageous ways by suggesting how to divide the benefits of coordinated action. He also argues that generally this is all that our sense of fairness can motivate us to do; with limited exceptions, it moves us to act only in ways that are in our interests. (For example, under normal circumstances, it won't prompt us to direct aid or resources towards someone in need when it is not in our interest to do so.) Fairness, he concludes, should be stripped of its veneer of nobility.

    Keywords: Evolution, Fairness, Interests, Interpersonal Interaction, Morality, Theory of Evolution, Verhaltensforschung
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