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Shared intentions: the evolution of collaboration

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  • Newton, Jonathan

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The ability to share intentions and adjust one's choices in collaboration with others is a fundamental aspect of human nature. We discuss the forces that would have acted for and against the evolution of this ability for a large class of dilemmas and coordination problems that would have been faced by our hominin ancestors. In contrast to altruism and other non-fitness maximizing preferences, the ability to share intentions proliferates when rare without requiring repeated interaction or assortativity in matching.

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Paper provided by University of Sydney, School of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2015-05.

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Keywords: Evolution; shared intentions; norm;

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Cited by:

  1. Newton, Jonathan & Wait, Andrew & Angus, Simon D., 2016. "Watercooler chat, organizational structure and corporate culture," Working Papers 2016-03, University of Sydney, School of Economics.

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