Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA05083 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:34:40 GMT Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20020210040844.00a386a0@mail.clarityconnect.com> X-Sender: rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:27:27 -0500 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Ray Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: The Urge to Punish Cheats: Not Just Human, but Selfless In-Reply-To: <160D5CA0-1DCF-11D6-BA5D-003065B9A95A@harvard.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 09:37 PM 2/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>The Urge to Punish Cheats: Not Just Human, but Selfless
>
>By NATALIE ANGIER
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/science/social/22CHEA.html?pagewanted=print
>
Good article. Probably falls more under the realm of sociobiology than
memetics. If this interests you there is a more lengthy discussion in
'The Economics of Fair Play', Sigmund, K., Fehr, E., & Nowak, M. in
'Scientific American' pp. 83-87 (January 2002)
As discussed in the article a similar game was used to study human gift
giving and acceptance practices in 15 societies. There was a fair amount
of culture variation but it was found that people would consistently give
more than a pure logical analysis would suggest was correct.
Ray Recchia
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