Plasticity in human cooperation and trust: field and laboratory evidence

titlePlasticity in human cooperation and trust: field and laboratory evidence
start_date2023/10/10
schedule11h
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location_infoAmphithéâtre
summaryHumans are often described as highly cooperative and trusting compared to other primates. However, they are also very variable in the cooperation and trust: from context to context and population to population. I will present two studies demonstrating this plasticity, the first based on fieldwork in two contrasting urban neighbourhoods, and the second using a laboratory paradigm. I show that economic scarcity and need, even at second hand, can have dramatic and immediate effects on people's decisions about whether to trust and cooperate.
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