Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521399998 ISBN 13: 9780521399999

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

In this book, prominent authors from disciplines as diverse as biology, philosophy, and the social sciences have assembled to consider the nature of cooperation and prosocial behavior at levels of social complexity ranging from the individual to the international. Successive sections cover key topics such as the relations between cooperation in animals and humans, the development of prosocial propensities in humans, aspects of the situation and of personality that increase the probability that individuals will behave prosocially, the relationships among trust, cooperation, and commitment, and cooperation between groups and nations. Three case studies that illustrate the important issue of international cooperation are also included. The chapters are integrated by a series of useful editorials that emphasize that a full understanding of cooperation and prosocial behavior requires us to move among different levels of social complexity.

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Book Description

Contributions from prominent authors from disciplines as diverse as biology, philosophy, and the social sciences consider the nature of cooperation and prosocial behavior at levels of social complexity ranging from the individual to the international.

Review

"...highly recommended to anyone generally interested in the vital topic of human prosocial behavior or who is preparing to embark on the study of any of its aspects." Jerome D. Frank, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521399998
• ISBN 13: 9780521399999
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Hinde Robert A., Groebel Jo