Competition between Social Groups, In-group Favoritism and Population-level Cooperation

Humans are social beings; people are predisposed to join groups, categorize the social world into groups, and prefer fellow in-group members over out-group members. Social groups in turn compete for individuals and especially for the resources of individuals to maintain the cultural practices and sy...

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Main Author: Janos Zoltan Varga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2018-06-01
Series:Cliodynamics
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Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ng1z7h1